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Alaska: A Novel Audiobook
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The high points in the story of Alaska since the American acquisition are brought vividly to life through more than 100 characters, real and fictional.
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“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
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“Always the master of exhaustive historical research, Michener tracks the settling of Alaska [in] vividly detailed scenes and well-developed characters.”
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“Michener is still, sentence for sentence, writing’s fastest attention grabber.”
— New York Times
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A New York Times bestseller
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JDM, 7/12/2024
About James A. Michener
James A. Michener (1907–1997) was one of the world’s most popular writers. He authored 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.
About Larry McKeever
Larry McKeever has narrated a number of audiobooks, including several by James A. Michener and Isaac Asimov.