On 4 November 1741 the Russian ship Svyatoy Pyotr (St Peter), under the command of Vitus Bering, was stranded with its crew of 28 hands on Bering Island, the most western of the Commander Islands off

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Amateur botanist John Bradby Blake and his collaborators never completed their illustrated record of Chinese flora, but they still stoked Britain’s passion for the Asian country’s plants

JOHN DOWLAND IS MY NAME: musician, composer, greatest lute player of my age in Europe, some say, when in England Elizabeth and James were on the throne. I died in 1626 when I was 63 and was buried on