Must have been originally published 5 or more years ago. Has to still be available, preferably still in print. Has to be something you’ve read yourself. Here are the Flashback Friday book selection guidelines: “Michener is still, sentence for sentence, writing’s fastest attention grabber.Flashback Friday is my own little weekly tradition, in which I pick a book from my reading past to highlight - and you’re invited to join in! “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 “Few will escape the allure of the land and people 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. 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. In this sweeping epic of the northernmost American frontier, James A.
1988 "First Edition" stated on copyright page Random House publishers, New York larger hardbound in mustard boards with metal foil decor and lettering on cover and spine very good condition with unmarked pages dust jacket very good.
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