![]() Michener has solved the problem of not having a thousand years to cover the whole state by employing an army of researchers. In his new historical novel, Alaska, James A. Where hardship complements beauty, life is an art. ![]() There's no better place to read Rilke this side of Europe. To live in Alaska, even if you are wearing white patent leather shoes and doing real estate deals, is to feel your life pitched at a poetic intensity. ![]() Partially what makes Alaska so extreme is its capacity to call forth a response of equal intensity in its passionate inhabitants. Statistics assail the mind - 586,000 square miles 39 mountain ranges 10,000 rivers and streams.īut getting the measure of the Alaska is not a simple matter of cataloguing physical properties, or pleading a beauty that beggars language. ![]() PEOPLE WHO write about Alaska are always trying to find a way to come to terms with its staggering size it's been said that if you covered a thousand acres a day you could not explore the breadth of it in a thousand years. ![]()
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