01402cam a2200253 4500 283106540 TxAuBib 20020515120000.0 020515s1975||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 75022370 9780684144665 $25.00 0684144662 $25.00 DLC DLC DLC CSfA TxAuBib Hunt, William R. Arctic Passage : The Turbulent History of the Land and People of the Bering Sea, 1697-1975 / by William R. Hunt. New York, NY : Scribner, 1975. 395 p : ill. ; hardbound. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 363-373. The Aleutian-Commander Islands stretch from the Alaskan peninsula west for about two thousand miles, all but enclosing the Bering Sea, the passage to the Arctic Ocean and to Asia. Waters of the sea wash two continents: Asia and North America. Though little of its human drama has been chronicled, this is not a historical backwater. In the eighteenth century, Kamchatka and Alaska were better known than California. The region, vital and rich, has been tenaciously and savagely disputed by the native peoples, Spanish, British, Americans, and Russians. 20020515. Bering Land Bridge. Bering Sea Region History.