The great Russian navigator, A.I. Chirikov
- 319pages
- 12 heures de lecture
A study of Aleksei Chirikov (1703-1748), the ablest and one of the two highest ranking subordinates of Vitus Bering, who contributed greatly to the success of Bering's two naval expeditions in the North Pacific--the first of which discovered the strait separating Asia and America and the second of which discovered Alaska
