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Description Publisher: For Dummies Year: 2009 Edition: 4 Language: English Pages: 456 ISBN: 0470385278, 9780470385272 You’re in for a scenic, sensory treat! Alaska has 100,000 glaciers and 10 million lakes. Wildlife roams freely across vast spaces, unfettered by fences or roads. Opportunities to experience real wilderness and enjoy outdoor activities abound. You can’t see or do it all, but you can make the most of your time with this friendly guide that gives you the scoop on:Anchorage, the gateway to Alaska, and nearby outdoor destinationsRoad trips from Anchorage: The Kenai Peninsula, including Seward, Kenai Fjords National Park, Kenai, and Homer; Fairbanks and its environs; Alaska’s long rural highways; and Denali National ParkSoutheast Alaska, including Juneau, Skagway and SitkaBush Alaska, covering fascinating places in the ArcticOptions for visiting by cruise shipFive great itineraries that touch on Alaska’s best destinationsThe best places to see marine mammals, birds, humpback whales, black, brown, or polar bears, and other wildlifeThe best gold rush towns, including Fairbanks, Juneau, Skagway, and Nome, where the free-wheeling frontier spirit abides todayInfo on fishing, skiing, sea kayaking, dogmushing, hiking, and moreAccommodations, ranging from a luxury hotel to railroad cars to a romantic inn and spa. Like every For Dummies travel guide, Alaska For Dummies, 4th Edition includes:Down-to-earth trip-planning adviceWhat you shouldn’t miss — and what you can skipThe best hotels and restaurants for every budgetHandy Post-it Flags to mark your favorite pages. Whether you want to get up close and personal (but not too close or too personal) with bears, explore the native heritage with its great totem poles, clan houses, and Iñupiat artwork, enjoy outdoor adventures, or just soak up the magnificent, unspoiled scenery, you’re on your way to a great Alaskan escape.   Pages: 456 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 5th Edition edition (18 Mar. 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 0470888717 ISBN-13: 978-0470888711 You′re in for a scenic, sensory treat! Alaska has 100,000 glaciers and 10 million lakes. Wildlife roams freely across vast spaces, unfettered by fences or roads. Opportunities to experience real wilderness and enjoy outdoor activities abound. You can t see or do it all, but you can make the most of your time with this friendly guide. Our author, Charles Wohlforth, is a lifelong Alaskan who has been writing about his home as a journalist and author for more than 20 years. Wohlforth received wide critical acclaim for his environmental studies of Alaska. Alaska For Dummies, 5th Edition gives you comprehensive coverage of America′s Last Frontier and includes: Anchorage and road trips from Anchorage; Southeast Alaska, including Juneau, Skagway and Sitka; bush Alaska, covering fascinating places in the Arctic; options for visiting by cruise ship; 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; the top ten questions to ask an Alaskan, and more. Like every For Dummies travel guide, Alaska For Dummies, 5th Edition includes 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 handy Post–it Flags to mark your favorite pages. About the Author Charles Wohlforth, a lifelong Alaskan, began his career in 1986 as a writer and journalist. His two other books for Wiley are Frommer’s Alaska and Frommer’s Family Vacations in the National Parks, the latter of which covers parks across the United States and is based on insights from the Wohlforth family’s own camping experiences. Wohlforth lives in Anchorage with his wife, Barbara; sons, Robin and Joseph; and daughters, Julia and Rebecca. His book about climate change and Native people in the Arctic is due out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2004. He welcomes reader questions through his Web site, www.wohlforth.net, which also contains other writings and travel advice about Alaska. Sharing Widget |