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Title: Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins ISBN: 0312302894 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.72
Rating: 5
Summary: The Last Frontier Revealed
Comment: Having read his "Walk Across America" and being one month away from a 12 day trip to this magnificent place I bought Peter Jenkins' "Looking For Alaska". It put me in Alaska before I got there. The descriptive language he uses along with his uncanny ability to meet people and have them open up to him makes this book a MUST read for anyone planning to go to Alaska, anyone interested in Alaska or anyone who lives in the last frontier. Later, as my vacation took me to places so beautiful they were far beyond my expectations and as I got to meet some of Alaska's inhabitants, some of Jenkins' writings came to mind. He came as close to capturing the essence of this land as is possible. It's people, landscapes and wildlife are beyond description, but Jenkins' gets and A+ grade for his work. A great book about a majestic land and its inhabitants.
Rating: 5
Summary: Finally, The REAL Alaska!
Comment: Do you ever wonder what Alaska is really like when the tourists go home and we Alaskans are left with Alaska? Well, this is the book. It tells all. I am a lifelong Alaskan. I am also one of those mentioned in "Looking For Alaska." Peter stayed with me for several days at WinterCabin B and B and experienced his first Alaska snow while here in Tok, Alaska. I'm a writer by profession and I read the entire book with a critical eye, looking for a problem, searching for a place where he may have "doctored" it up or glossed over something. He didn't. Peter Jenkins has done a superb job of telling it like it is. Moving his family to Seward, Alaska, he has traveled the entire state, going where his heart took him. And he captured it all. The good, the bad, and the glorius. If you want to know how we Alaskans live at any given moment, at any given time, in any given place, this is the book that tells all. I have never read a book that so carefully, and fully, captured the entire state, but this one does. This his best book yet. Told in simple layman's terms, it's an easy read. Whether you're an armchair traveler, just interested in Alaska, or if you're planning a trip to Alaska and you can only read one book, read Peter Jenkins' Looking For Alaska."
Rating: 5
Summary: The next best thing to being there yourself!
Comment: Peter Jenkins has an amazing gift. He introduces you, the reader, to the people and towns that create the essence of Alaska. Peter Jenkins captures the energy of what is around him and retells his adventures with such realisim and depth that when you close the book and close your eyes you feel as if you had been there next to him, experiencing his adventures first hand. If you want to know the true Alaska, Peter will show you the way.
There are monstrous breeching whales, fishing expeditions in the fridgid ocean water and stories from the people who have lived in the land of Alaska their entire lives. This book was an honor to read and I highly recommend it. Sit back, relax and enjoy a magical trip to one of the most beautiful places on earth.
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Title: Walk Across America, A by Peter Jenkins ISBN: 006095955X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Along the Edge of America by Peter Jenkins ISBN: 0395877377 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 15 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Blue Bear: A True Story of Friendship, Tragedy, and Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness by Lynn Schooler ISBN: 0066210852 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 07 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Milepost 2003: Trip Planner for Alaska, Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Alberta & Northwest Territories (Milepost, 55th Ed) by Morris Communication Corp ISBN: 1892154110 Publisher: Morris Communications Corp Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2 by Peter Jenkins, Barbara Jenkins ISBN: 0688006663 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: November, 1981 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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