A book from the History of Marine Animal Populations project of the Census of Marine Life program has earned a top history prize. The Bancroft Prize is “generally considered to be among the most prestigious awards in the field of American history writing.â€Â  Winners are a Who’s Who of American Historians — Samuel Eliot Morison, C Vann Woodward, Arthur M Schlesinger Jr, George Kennan, Daniel Boorstin, Bernard Bailyn, Robert Fogel, Alfred Chandler, Edmund Morgan, Drew Gilpin Faust. Amazingly, Jeff Bolster’s about the North Atlantic, The Mortal Sea, is one of the two winners for 2013!
Congratulations, Jeff.
Review in Times Literary Supplement 20 March 2013