Master storyteller James Michener reveals Alaska in all its awesome, sweeping majesty. From the near-forgotten past, to the highly technological present, from self-defense to self-determination, here are the men and women who tried to tame the land, seize its bounty, and lay claim to the elusive spirit that holds native and visitor spellbound. A stirring portrait of a human community living on the edge of the world, ALASKA claims a bold heritage of survival against all odds. ” Michener has done a fine job.... Few will escape the allure of the land and people he describes.” LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVEIW Reviews Praise for “Alaska” “Few will escape the allure of the land and people [Michener] describes. . . . “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. . . . The characters that Michener creates are bigger than life.”—“Los Angeles Times Book Review” “Always the master of exhaustive historical research, Michener tracks the settling of Alaska [in] vividly detailed scenes and well-developed characters.”—“Boston Herald” “Michener is still, sentence for sentence, writing’s fastest attention grabber.”—“The New York Times” Praise for “Alaska” “Few will escape the allure of the land and people [Michener] describes. . . . “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. . . . The characters that Michener creates are bigger than life.”—“Los Angeles Times Book Review” “Always the master of exhaustive historical research, Michener tracks the settling of Alaska [in] vividly detailed scenes and well-developed characters.”—“Boston Herald” “Michener is still, sentence for sentence, writing’s fastest attention grabber.”—“The New York Times” “From the Trade Paperback edition.” “Mr. Michener is still, sentence for sentence, writing’s fastest attention grabber.” —“The New York Times ”“Always the master of exhaustive historical research, Michener tracks the settling of Alaska [in] vividly detailed scenes and well-developed characters.” ”—Boston Herald” ” Mr. Michener is still, sentence for sentence, writing’s fastest attention grabber.” — “The New York Times ”“ Always the master of exhaustive historical research, Michener tracks the settling of Alaska [in] vividly detailed scenes and well-developed characters.” ”— Boston Herald” “From the Trade Paperback edition.” About the Author James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Tales of the South Pacific, “the bestselling novels “The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, “and “Caravans, “and the memoir “The World Is My Home.” Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.