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Finalist for the 2004 PEN American Center Literary Award in the Research Nonfiction category Finalist for the 2004 Caroline Bancroft Western History Prize sponsored by the Denver Public Library “A biography of Bering has long been needed and no one is better suited to write it than Orcutt Frost. Based on meticulous scholarship and a lifelong knowledge of the subject, this biography will be a revelation to anyone interested in the history of exploration.”—Glyn Williams, author of Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage

Finalist for the 2004 PEN American Center Literary Award in the Research Nonfiction category Finalist for the 2004 Caroline Bancroft Western History Prize sponsored by the Denver Public Library A biography of Bering has long been needed and no one is better suited to write it than Orcutt Frost. Based on meticulous scholarship and a lifelong knowledge of the subject, this biography will be a revelation to anyone interested in the history of exploration. -Glyn Williams, author of Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage

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Orcutt Frost, emeritus professor of the humanities at Alaska Pacific University, is an authority on Bering’s voyages and has written numerous books and articles on the subject.

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