That is one of the best parts of this book. The book I owned is 1073 pages long and divided over 12 chapters, and is published by ‘The Random House Publishing Group’, you can say that the 12 chapters are actually 12 small novels and every chapter is linked with each other but still the story in one chapter seems complete. Highest elevation point is Mt.Mckinley aka Denali, which stands at 20320 ft. The highest temperatue (37.8 C) in Alaska is recorded at Fort Yukon on 27 Jun, 1915 (it is also recorded as lowest high temperature tied with Hawaii in the whole USA), and the lowest temperature (-62.2 C) is recored at Prospect Creek on 23 Jan, 1971. The capital of Alaska is Juneau and biggest city is Anchorage, and Barrow is the northernmost city of Alaska and US. There cross an international Date Line which cuts exactly between the two Diomede Islands – Big Diomede (belongs to Russia) also knows as Tommorrow island and Little Diomede (belongs to USA) also known as Yesterday Isle, the time difference between these two minutely separated island is 20 hrs.

US purchased it from Russia on Mafor $7.2 million (2 cents per acre) and it attained statehood on 3rd Jan, 1959.It was earlier connected to Russian mainland which is now separated by Bering Strait, after rise of sea-water.

I owned ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’ too but it still hanging in between.įor some info, Alaska stands 1st in area out of 50 states of US, and comes on 47th number in terms of population. 5th Sept 2012 I completed this epic novel taking total of 245 days to complete it (it was a very low average for me, since I use to read it slowly, then only you can enjoy each and every adventure of the book) and now it counts as my 2nd complete epic read after ‘Lord of the Rings’. As I depicted in my earlier reviews that Alaska, the 49th and biggest (in area) and northernmost state of USA, always attracted me, hence I read 2 books already belonging to the reason, 1 is still remain to read, so I ordered this one too. Order went through Infibeam and I received my book on 29th Dec 2011, and one fine day 5th Jan 2012 I started reading it, and I lost in the wonderful world of Alaska. I desperately wanted to read an adventure book, and I researched and found an author James Albert Michener, and when I researched his works, I found an epic, which I thought will give me immense pleasure, and I ordered his 18th Novel “Alaska” which was first published in 1988. Michener This is an epic review about an epic novel.

Pages: 1073 Days: 245 Name: Alaska Author: James A.

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