I cannot begin to adequately review this book readers who enjoy learning as they read and spending a good long time delving into a work enjoy Michener. James Michener is one of my all time favorites if not the number one author, who else does such marvelous research and delves into history, geography, sociology, anthropology, biology, geology and all facets of whatever subject he tackled, perhaps David McCullough and is it not a coincidence both authors are Pennsylvanians with roots into Pittsburgh.Īn adroitly blended mixture of fact and fiction, woven through 12 chapters covering geolocigal concepts beginning far before the prehistoric era with Clashing Terranes and culminating with Alaskan statehood in the final chapter, Rim of Fire there is no history nor anthropology of a peoples untouched. The early movement of the woolly mammoth and the arrival of humans is almost comical but becomes tragic. It is a Michener tome, a wonderful work, over 1100 pages, very small print but I finished it last month read very little of it on our trip when I went through other books faster. First published in 1988, then in the paperback edition in 1989 this was one of the few Michener's I had not read although I have a shelf of complete works. In January I determined this was a must read prior to our August journey to Alaska and so it traveled south with us and then returned home.
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