This reprint of an 1890 study by the naturalist William Dall reviews a report by Vitus Ivanovich Bering (printed in Russian a century after the fact) on his first expedition across the seas east of Siberia. Bering's report, according to Dall, was "written in archaic and badly spelled Russian, with a singular disregard of punctuation and other literary niceties." Nevertheless, Dall believed it to be of sufficient historic and geographic interest that he used it as the basis of his comments on the expedition. The volume includes a b&w pull-out map reproducing a chart of Bering's voyage from a 1737 atlas. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
