Alaska by James A. Michener Brian Sitts cracked and faded leatherwork and

cracked and faded leatherwork and a shattered windscreen

Published: 1996 by Simon & Schuster

astonishing allegory

and the secret begins to stir

creating a dangerous situation for herself by defying tradition

Alaska by James A. Michener Brian Sitts cracked and faded leatherwork andJAME MICHENER'S RICHEST, most panoramic novel yet traces the development of Alaska from earliest times. It is an awesome story, opening with an account of pre history, moving through several million years of geological and climatological change, the coming of the mammoth and the mastodon, the arrival of the earliest hunters, and the battle to adapt to this harsh and chilling land. Alaska is the 'ice palace', where the last Ice Age ended only 14,000