'Michener is still, sentence for sentence, writing's fastest attention grabber. Following the tradition that he has made his own in blockbuster bestsellers as Hawaii, Centennial, Chesapeake and Texas James A. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual. 'Always the master of exhaustive historical research, Michener tracks the settling of Alaska vividly detailed scenes and well-developed characters.' - Boston Herald The characters that Michener creates are bigger than life.' - Los Angeles Times Book Review Alaska takes the reader on a journey through one of the bleakest, richest, most foreboding, and highly inviting territories in our Republic, if not the world. Michener attempts to capture this massive, sweeping land in his novel ALASKA. 'Few will escape the allure of the land and people describes. A spellbinding portrait of a human community fighting to establish its place in the world, Alaska traces a bold and majestic saga of the enduring spirit of a land and its people. As his characters struggle for survival, Michener weaves together the exciting high points of Alaska's story: its brutal origins the American acquisition the gold rush the tremendous growth and exploitation of the salmon industry the arduous construction of the Alcan Highway, undertaken to defend the territory during World War II.

Michener guides us through Alaska's fierce terrain and history, from the long-forgotten past to the bustling present. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prizewinning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesa. In this sweeping epic of the northernmost American frontier, James A. In this sweeping epic of the northernmost American frontier, James A.

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