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Within this sweeping epic of the northernmost National frontier, James A. Michener books people across Alaska’s intense landscape, in the long-forgotten past towards the busy technical present, as his people struggle for success. The thrilling high-points of Alaska’s tale, from its raw prehistory, through the nineteenth-century and the National purchase, to its contemporary reputation as America’s flourishing forty ninth state, are brought vividly alive in this amazing book: the gold-rush; the great development and exploitation of the fish business; the development of gas and its cultural and economical effects; the challenging development of the Alcan Highway, which permitted the protection of the place in World-War II. A mesmerizing portrait of the human group fighting to determine its devote the planet, Alaska traces a regal and daring background of the enduring nature of the territory and its people.