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	Alaska (novel) by James A. Michener Information
		Alaska is a historical novel by James A. Michener.
		Throughout the novel are (at the beginnings of chapters) and maps (frontispiece, pages 102-103, and inside back cover).
		The illustration is an oval-shaped sketch of items easily identifiable with the state of Alaska.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Alaska_%28novel%29 (367 words)

	Alaska - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This is because Alaska is situated at the edge of a tectonic plate, as indeed are virtually all the countries of the Pacific rim.
		Alaska is the largest state in the USA and one of the least populated.
		Alaska struggled to shoulder the cost of its public services but benefited from federal grants and raised funds through the leasing of lands, a measure protested by Inuit and other American Indian groups whose livelihoods and way of life depended on maintaining their hunting and fishing rights in the region.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Alaska (2981 words)

	Alaska Information - Hometown USA
		Alaska is the only state that is both in North America and not part of the 48 contiguous states.
		Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area, 570,374 square miles (1,477,261 km²).
		Alaska has no counties in the sense used in the rest of the country; however, the state is divided into 27 census areas and boroughs.
	www.hometownusa.com /ak (1787 words)

	Ice Palace: A Novel for Alaska Statehood
		Alaska, as a part of the United States, didn't particularly interest me. I was as ignorant of it as were (and are) most of the millions of citizens of my country.
		Alaska is depicted as a great natural treasury, chock-full of "fish and fur and oil and metals and timber," a place brimming with life.
		The focal point of Ferber's novel is the lovely teenager Christine Storm, who was born in the slit-open carcass of a caribou in the middle of a snowstorm deep in the Alaskan wilderness.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/BARTLETT/palace.html (1288 words)

	Alaska (novel) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Alaska is a (Click link for more info and facts about historical novel) historical novel by (Click link for more info and facts about James A. Michener) James A. Michener.
		Throughout the novel are (at the beginnings of chapters) and maps ((Front illustration facing the title page of a book) frontispiece, pages 102-103, and inside back cover).
		The jacket of Alaska features an illustration on the front and a (A picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material) photograph of Michener on the back.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/alaska_(novel).htm (828 words)

	Internet Book List :: Book Information: Alaska
		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.
	www.iblist.com /book14992.htm (89 words)

	Alaska Small Press Catalog - Children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		From the rainforest of Southeast Alaska to the arctic, the author explores Alaska with her camera and trusted bears.
		This story of a crucial summer in the life of a boy growing up on the shores of Prince William Sound in southcentral Alaska melds tall tales and wild adventures with carefully observed accounts of life devoted to and dependent upon the sea.
		Share 14-year-old Sven Olafsen's 1898 adventures, his hope and despair, as he braves the Alaska wilderness and weather with the Army unit cutting a trail from Prince William Sound to the Yukon River.
	www.xyz.net /~wizard/children.htm (1015 words)

	Alaska Sea Adventures: Southeast Alaska
		The part of Alaska commonly referred to as ‘Southeast' Alaska is the ‘panhandle' portion of the state made up of the Alexander Archipelago of islands and a strip of mainland bordering Canada's British Columbia and Yukon Territories.
		Nearly all of the nearly 40,000 square mile area of southeast Alaska which is larger than the state of Indiana, is comprised of the Tongass National Forest and is not only the largest U.S. National Forest, but a major portion of the world's largest remaining temperate rain forest.
		Alaska Sea Adventures specializes in providing the best choice of access to this remote wilderness area whether it's for the dream vacation of wildlife viewing and fishing, capturing great wildlife and scenery photography or research.
	www.yachtalaska.com /pages/sealaska.html (361 words)

	Amazon Interview
		After I moved to Alaska in 1979, I became more interested in human relationships to the natural world, which are well explored by Barry Lopez and Richard Nelson.
		Alaska may be big, geographically, but the state has only 600,000 people.
		Virtually all of Alaska's citizens, from the governor and senators to the laborers and clerks, seem accessible to one another.
	www.magdanz.com /books/river/amz1015.htm (963 words)

	Book Review: 'Legacy of the Chief' - ExploreNorth
		It is a historical novel about south central Alaska beginning in 1868 and extending to near the present time.
		Allen was given the mission to explore and chart all of the rivers in the Alaskan interior, record the indigenous tribes, and assess their numbers.
		Ron is dedicated to the well being and progression of his people, the Athabascans of Alaska and the Continent, whose spiritual culture has endured since the Ice Age.
	www.explorenorth.com /articles/billjones/review-legacy.html (1071 words)

	adn.com \| alaska : Novel involving Alaska Jewish colony is rooted in history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Novel involving Alaska Jewish colony is rooted in history
		The novel's embryo was in an essay Chabon wrote 10 years ago about Yiddish, the everyday old-country language of European Jewry.
		He also found the geography of Russian Alaska to be perfect for his story, he said, with place names that evoked the storied landscape of "Fiddler on the Roof" author Sholom Aleichim.
	www.adn.com /news/alaska/story/8828757p-8729539c.html (1360 words)

	Printed Matter -- Tim Rundquist -- Page
		Rundquist then went to Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma where he earned a bachelor's degree in legal studies in 1985, the University of Oregon for a master's in political science, and finally the Seattle University School of Law for a law degree in 1996.
		In his final season of tour guiding, 1995, he worked for an eco-tourism firm, Alaska Wildland Adventures, which emphasized environmental education and sustainable tourism in addition to hiking, whale-watching and river-rafting.
		So unless you want to crop up as an unsympathetic character in his novel, you might want to stop by The Avid Reader on April 14 (mark that down on your calendar) and say hi to him.
	www.dcn.davis.ca.us /~gizmo/2001/tim2.html (823 words)

	Amazon.com: Alaska: A Novel: Books: James A. Michener (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Michener, as he has done in other novels, again proves his writing has a prophetic nature to it, as the last chapter details an earthquake in the Pacific Ocean that sends a Tsunami wall of water to assault the shore or Alaska, eerily reminiscient of the tsunami that devastated Sri Lanka recently.
		"Alaska" is a well-researched, well-told, 900-page story of the exploration and settlement of our nation's 49th state, with a characteristically Michener-like blend of fact with...
		Alaska is a harsh environment with fantastic resources, and the stories of the people who chose to go to Alaska to harvest those riches make for a compelling, epic novel.
	www.amazon.com /Alaska-Novel-James-Michener/dp/037576142X (1660 words)

	Fiction
		Alaska locations are mixed up—the writer probably had never been to Alaska.
		Ages 9-13 OP Jean-Paul, a young Canadian boy is taunted and excluded from his classmates' activities as he struggles to adapt to life in the Arctic.
		This novel length story interweaves a folk tale of an Athabaskan woman and the adventures of an Inuit man who seeks the sun in the southern regions of North America.
	www.jun.alaska.edu /education/cte/spangler/fiction.html (2891 words)

	ALASKA (in MARION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Alaska, a history of its administration, exploitation, and industrial development during its first half century under the rule of the United States.
		Alaska : a Lonely Planet travel survival kit.
		Alaska : a photographic journey through the last wilderness.
	www-catalog.cpl.org /MARION?T=ALASKA (83 words)

	Review: Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As such, it includes a raft of requisite stock elements: the kids are brighter and braver than the adults, there's a mammoth natural obstacle for them to overcome, and the wildlife they meet is inevitably helpful (no need to be afraid of a bear with Reg Powell's cheerful music playing).
		Alaska gives us cardboard people who struggle to engage our sympathies on even the most basic level.
		Alaska would have been marginally better without the heavy dose of Native American mysticism that has been injected into the screenplay.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/a/alaska.html (685 words)

	Wrangell Mountains Center
		His novel, Alaska Dragon, is set in the Wrangell Mountains.
		She co-founded the Alaska Wildlands Studies program and the Wrangell Mountains Center, and now divides the year between McCarthy and Port Townsend.
		Born in Alaska and a lifelong bibliophile, Lila also serves on the boards of the Alaska Center for Book and the Alaska Poetry League.
	www.alaska.net /~wmc/about.html (1643 words)

	New Voices
		Now Alaska writers are venturing into more challenging terrain: genre fiction with a more authentic bite and creative nonfiction that brings fiction's best storytelling tools to the ''facts'' of our northern existence.
		Lord came to Alaska in 1973 and first made her mark as a writer of short fiction.
		But after 20 years in Alaska, she finally plunged into writing about life in a fish camp on the shore of Cook Inlet.
	litsite.alaska.edu /uaa/akwrites/newvoices.html (2974 words)

	Some Books About Alaska
		The Alaska State Library has published this list annually since 1994 because we feel that such an annotated list is of value to libraries in Alaska.
		Evolution of public policy and intellectual underpinnings of Alaska land, noting the contradictions in the desire to preserve the natural "wilderness" which in reality is some of the oldest inhabited land in North America.
		Alaska 's past and present still depend on seas routes: from Russian exploration and exploitation to the modern fishing and transportation of oil and other commodities.
	www.library.state.ak.us /hist/somebooks/some97.html (9630 words)

	Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Michener covers Alaska's history from the time of floating land masses crashing into each other to form mountain ranges, to the present, blending fictional characters with historical figures, (and even providing a clarification of which is which.)
		By telling stories of individuals and their struggles to survive, explore, and tame this land, he helps us understand and experience the reality of life in a true frontier.
		Though sometimes brutal and violent, this novel allows us to experience the gold rush, salmon canneries, and the nearly-forgotten role of Alaska in World War II.
	www.quickewww.sfpnn.com /Reviews/ow031302.htm (349 words)

	Powell's Books - Dive: A Novel by Lisa Teasley
		Lisa Teasley's seductive debut novel is at once a thriller, a love story, and a meditation on what makes each one of us unique.
		Ruby Falls is a beautiful animator whose freewheeling L.A. lifestyle is suddenly derailed when she stumbles upon a bloody crime scene at the Laurel Canyon guest house where she lives.
		Teasley's seductive debut novel is at once a thriller, a love story, and a meditation on what makes every person unique.
	www.powells.com /biblio?show=HARDCOVER:USED:1582343985:13.95 (438 words)

	Alaskan Cruisetour Photo Gallery - Day 5 - Downtown Skagway
		The play was well-acted and entertaining, not to mention informative about the life and times of Soapy Smith, the self-proclaimed King of Skagway.
		While both the novel and the play are fictionalized accounts, they show a character who clearly was a professional con man.
		Alaska Gold Rush Trails - Stories of the Past
	www.well.com /user/wolfy/Alaska/Day05c.html (177 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Southeast Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Southeast Alaska, called the Panhandle, is between British Columbia and the Pacific Ocean.
		In this sumptuous book of photographs, Simmerman (Alaska II, Alaska's Parklands) documents the environment (gorgeous sunsets, awesome mountains, glacier-carved fjords, lush forests, wildflowers); the people (Tlingit Native Americans and their carvings, fishermen, loggers, tourists on cruise ships); animals and sea life (bears, mountain goats, salmon, sea lions).
		Eppenbach (Alaska's Southeast: Touring the Inside Passage) describes, in short essays, the lives of the residents and the natural pleasures of the Panhandle, which include the 16.8-million-acre Tongass National Forest and the bountiful Alaskan wildlife.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0932575730 (282 words)

	OCC School of Sailing and Seamanship - Alaska Eagle 2004 Itinerary
		Alaska Eagle will anchor in famed Hanga Roa Bay, under the shadow of ancient moai statues and a long departed civilization.
		Since Alaska Eagle will sail in both the south and north pacific trades, all points of sail and a wide variety of weather conditions will be experienced.
		Usually a downwind run, there is opportunity to do some night passagemaking, to get an understanding of all that is involved in running a cruising vessel on a 24-hour basis and to practice coastal navigation.
	www.occsailing.com /pages/eagle/eaglesched2004.html (2127 words)

	Day 6 - Alaska Highway Adventure
		Here in Alaska we gained another hour -- we were now on Alaska Daylight Time and our clocks were changed from 5:40 pm to 4:40 pm.
		The next 80 miles of the Alaska highway were very remote and deserted, following a pretty taiga forest under partly sunny skies.
		About 10 miles further we saw the Alaska pipeline crossing the Tanana River on huge suspension towers, protected by barbed-wire fences, surveillance cameras, and FBI warning signs.
	www.weathergraphics.com /tim/arctic/0527.htm (1378 words)

	Alaska
		My desire quickly grew to include driving the Alaska Highway, spending some time driving and ferrying around to the major places in Alaska, and then to drive back through a western route and into Washington State, and then back to DC at the end of the summer.
		Although it's long and very detailed, it's a fabulous historical fiction novel that exposes the reader to lots and lots about the history and atmosphere of many of the main areas of Alaska.
		If you are a wilderness person, or someone who enjoys hiking and camping, please remember that when you are so close to the north pole, your magnetic north and true north are significantly different, and you can get lost by using a compass.
	www.louannsplace.com /Alaska/Alaska.html (1214 words)

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		CIRI shareholder Chris Kiana received a master's degree in rural development from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in May. This is his second master's degree.
		He has also written the mystery novel "Alaska Crying Baby," and is currently working on another book for children.
		For her thesis project, she plans to focus on a CIRI sponsored non-profit or educational organization with the idea that her research be pragmatic and beneficial to Alaska Native people.
	www.ciri.com /newsletter/july2002/02touch.html (623 words)

	SitNews - L. Ron Hubbard's Alaska Adventure His long winter in Ketchikan By June Allen
		Ketchikan, Alaska - For such a small city in such a remote location, Ketchikan has had its fair share of experience in welcoming the rich and famous.
		On a more noble level, the Alaska experiment, he said, was to "augment his knowledge of more cultures - the Tlingit, the Haida and the Aleut Indians of Alaska" -- an ethnological study with emphasis on the universal Great Flood myth.
		His purpose in coming to Alaska was two-fold, one to win a bet and another to gather material for a novel of Alaska salmon fishing.
	www.sitnews.us /JuneAllen/Hubbard/011905_hubbard.html (1734 words)

	anovelview
		- devoted to literary empowerment of women writers of mystery novels.
		We participate in Anchorage's popular year-round "First Friday Art Walk Receptions," featuring Alaskan artists, and have fresh art in the store for viewing and purchase on an ongoing basis.
		We also occasionally hold special Interactive Novel Dinner events, particularly in conjunction with the Alaska Reads Initiative, sponsored by the Alaska Sisters in Crime.
	www.homestead.com /anovelview (277 words)

	Alaska
		Alaska Passages 20 Voices from above the 54th Parallel
		Birthplace of the Winds: Adventuring in Alaska's Islands of Fire and Ice
		Alaska on Foot: Wilderness Techniques for the Far North
	www.globecorner.com /g/i303.html (501 words)

	Jewskimos welcome novel highlighting Alaska Jews \| Lifestyle \| Living \| Reuters
		ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters Life!) - For years, they've endured jokes about the "frozen chosen" and even doubts about their existence but now Alaska Jews are getting some unexpected northern exposure.
		The latest novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon imagines a Yiddish-speaking Jewish homeland in the most northerly U.S. state which has put a welcome spotlight on the small Jewish community.
		The rabbi, who is also spearheading an effort to build an Alaska Jewish history museum, said he is used to the mistaken idea that no Jews live in the 49th state.
	www.reuters.com /article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN0830383120070611 (409 words)

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