Alaska For Dummies by Charles P. Wohlforth (PDF)

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A friendly travel guide that makes preparing for an Alaskan adventure easier than ever Alaska has 100,000 glaciers and 10 million lakes. Wildlife roams freely across vast spaces, unfettered by fences or roads. With so many opportunities to experience real wilderness and enjoy outdoor activities, you can’t see or do it all, but you can make the most of your time with Alaska For Dummies, an accessible yet comprehensive guide to America’s Last Frontier. Inside you’ll discover: Anchorage and road trips from Anchorage Southeast Alaska, including Juneau, Skagway, and Sitka Bush Alaska, with coverage of fascinating places in the Arctic Options for visiting by cruise ship Ways to travel to Alaska and how to get around once you’re there Tips for booking accommodations and finding the best deals Five great itineraries that touch on Alaska’s best destinations The best places to see marine mammals, birds, humpback whales, black, brown, or polar bears, and other wildlife The best gold rush towns, including Fairbanks, Juneau, Skagway, and Nome, where the free-wheeling frontier spirit abides today Ten questions to ask an Alaskan (like, “Why is the capital in a city you can’t drive to?”) And lots more Alaska For Dummies contains down-to-earth trip-planning advice, what you shouldn’t miss (and what you can skip), the best hotels and restaurants for every budget, and an appendix with a directory of facts, phone numbers, and website addresses you’ll w

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Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap Tame the wilds of America’s Last FrontierSee wildlife roaming vast open spaces. Explore Mount McKinley, Native Alaskan culture, and old gold rush towns. Go skiing, sea kayaking, or fishing. Marvel at spectacular glaciers and windswept tundras. Whether your style is luxury cruise ship, laid-back road trip, or active wilderness hike, this guide gets you ready for a wild and wonderful Alaskan adventure.Open the book and find:Down-to-earth trip-planning adviceWhat you shouldn’t miss — and what you can skipThe best hotels and restaurants for every budgetLots of detailed maps From the Back Cover Tame the wilds of America’s Last FrontierSee wildlife roaming vast open spaces. Explore Mount McKinley, Native Alaskan culture, and old gold rush towns. Go skiing, sea kayaking, or fishing. Marvel at spectacular glaciers and windswept tundras. Whether your style is luxury cruise ship, laid-back road trip, or active wilderness hike, this guide gets you ready for a wild and wonderful Alaskan adventure.Open the book and find:Down-to-earth trip-planning adviceWhat you shouldn’t miss ― and what you can skipThe best hotels and restaurants for every budgetLots of detailed maps About the Author Charles Wohlforth is a lifelong Alaskan who has written ten books about the state, its nature, its history, and its politics. His most recent book, The Fate of Nature: Rediscovering Our Ability to Rescue the Earth (Picador), uses the story of Alaska’s coasts to explore the capacity of humanity to solve global environmental challenges. His previous book, The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change (North Point Press), won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for science and technology. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Just returned from a “bucket list” trip to Alaska that has been in the planning stage for over 6 months. This book was invaluable in helping us to choose activities, locations, prices. Writers are knowledgeable and the information is current. Highly recommend to all who are contemplating this beautiful trip.

⭐Bought this book for an upcoming trip to Alaska, having never been I am excited to read and learn about Alaska and be able to plan out my trip. Very helpful in both the schedule of things like tours, wildlife watching and train schedules.

⭐The family depended on this to plan their trip to Alaska. Works well. Especially the parts that point to “what to see” and “Don’t bother.”

⭐Not what I expected for a touring alaska book. Not much for the rv tour.

⭐I found this book on a Holland America ship during my Alaska cruise/tour, read it onboard the ship and found it so well written and useful that after my return home I bought it from Amazon. Why ? Several reaosns.The language. Written in plain, straight-forward way, with no hot-air, no high-falutin stuff. Reads like well-written fiction even though it is not.The information. Lots of practical, first-hand gathered, information, useful both for participants of organized cruise/tours, like the one I just took, and for tourists discovering Alaska independently on their own, like I’m going to do next summer with “Alaska for Dummies” in hand.The interesting tid-bits. I knew that Alska was big, but it didn’t really click for me how big it was until I found in this book comparisons like: France, Germany and Italy would all fit into Alaska territory with still room to spare for the State of Maine. If you superimpose Alaska map over the lower 48s, it will strech all the way from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean. Most of Alaskans were not born there: they came to visit and stayed to live there.And even if you don’t plan to experience Alaska in person, the book allows you to do it vicariously through the author’s personal Alaska stories.

⭐This book helped us plan for our first trip to Alaska, and we referred to it often during our two-week RV trek. The author took us by the hand as if to say, “don’t worry, you will have a great trip to Alaska, and I will show you how.”The other book that proved indispensible on our Alaskan road trip:

⭐Easy to read. Well ordered

⭐Great book much information for our upcoming trip to Alaska

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