Great review in New Scientist

In Island of the Blue Foxes, Stephen Bown has drawn on journals, logs, letters and official reports to piece together a story never fully told before. And what a story: adventure and discovery, misery and death, and a cast of characters by turns admirable and appalling, brilliant and hopeless, annoying and plain nasty. Two of them – Vitus Bering, the Danish leader of the expedition, and German naturalist Georg Steller – have long been heroes of mine. Thanks to Bown’s revelations and brilliant storytelling, I now know just how astonishing their exploits were.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/...