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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: James A. Michener , Steve BerryPublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Random House USA Inc Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.714kg ISBN: 9780375761423ISBN 10: 037576142 Pages: 1152 Publication Date: 12 November 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsMr. Michener is still, sentence for sentence, writing's fastest attention grabber. <br>-- The New York Times <br> Always the master of exhaustive historical research, Michener tracks the settling of Alaska [in] vividly detailed scenes and well-developed characters. <br> --Boston Herald Mr. Michener is still, sentence for sentence, writing's fastest attention grabber. <br>-- The New York Times<br><br> Always the master of exhaustive historical research, Michener tracks the settling of Alaska [in] vividly detailed scenes and well-developed characters. <br> --Boston Herald Praise for Alaska Few will escape the allure of the land and people [Michener] 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. . . . The characters that Michener creates are bigger than life. --Los Angeles Times Book Review Always the master of exhaustive historical research, Michener tracks the settling of Alaska [in] vividly detailed scenes and well-developed characters. --Boston Herald Michener is still, sentence for sentence, writing's fastest attention grabber. --The New York Times Author InformationJames A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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