Bathsheba Demuth is a writer and environmental historian at Brown University, and author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, which has won a number of prizes. A current Carnegie Fellow, she is writing a biography of the Yukon River watershed. Photograph © Peter Goldberg
‘I am on the hunt for the Russian Empire, or what traces might still exist of its colonial enterprise.’
Bathsheba Demuth travels the Yukon river, following the history of the fur trade and the Nulato massacre.
‘The people who lived here lived in the heads of whales.’
A historian from New England goes to the Bering Strait.
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