THIS is a story that reads like
fiction but is really history. It's an account of the last and most exciting
voyage of Vitus Bering, the navigator who discovered the frozen seas of the
North Pacific and opened the way to Alaska and the Aleutians.
Bering was a Danish sailor who, three
hundred years ago, was hired by the Russians to find out whether Asia and North
America were linked by land. As recent fighting up there has proved, the
elements have no mercy on men. Bering, too, had to fight violent storms, icy
seas, and always • the blanket of fog that wrapped everything in white
obscurity. Sailing thousands of miles into completely unknown waters, he had
one miraculous escape after another. Finally his incredible luck ran out, and
he was shipwrecked on a deserted island off Kamchatka.
But his expedition was a success, and
today a sea and strait bear his name. His was the last great voyage of
discovery on our globe.
This special edition of JOURNEY INTO THE
FOG by Cornelia Goodhue has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United
States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Doubleday, Doran and
Co., Inc., New York.
Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., a
non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime