Alaska by James Michener
Alaska by James Michener is a 868-page hardcover published in 1988 by Random House. The dust jacket and book are in good original condition. Book Summary Alaska and its numerous islands have for so many thousands of years been occupied by peoples from Siberia that the "discovery" of this continent by Columbus seems like a current event. Eskimos, Aleuts, Athapascans, Tlingits crossed to the breathtakingly beautiful land in small boats, or, when the floor of the Bering Straight was exposed, they came on foot, as did various huge exotic animals that now no longer exist. Century after century, with little modification, these people survived, feeding and clothing themselves by their skills as hunters and fishermen. The beginnings of this novel portrays the lives and struggles of humans and animals of Alaska prehistory, and then the story makes a broad leap into the eighteenth century. In 1724, shortly before he died, Peter the Great appointed the Danish navigator Vitus Bering to explore