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Guide to the Alaska Highway
Traveling across the great northern expanses from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Delta Junction, Alaska, the 1,500-mile Alaska Highway remains one of the greatest driving adventures of all time. Inside you will find details on gas prices, where to camp, how to prepare your vehicle for the journey, and insightful driving tips. Tips scattered through the guide tell you where to spot wildlife, let you in on a few favorite fishing holes, and highlight important destinations. Brimming with full-color photography, Guide to the Alaska Highway is the most stunning, the most complete, and most thoroughly researched book on the market today. This invaluable guide will help travelers tailor a safe, pleasant, and enjoyable drive through some of the most scenic and rugged landscape on Earth. This guide is perfect for the adventure lover.
Alaska Highway
Few construction projects of the twentieth century match the building of the Alaska Highway for drama, setting, and engineering challenge. In recognition of the 40th anniversary of this epidsode in Canadian-American cooperation, a symposium was held at Fort St. John, one of several communities that were, and still are, profoundly affected by the building of the road. The papers presented at this interdisciplinary gathering of international scholars of the Canadian and American births illustrate the significance of the highway in such diverse spheres as Canadian-American relations, British Columbia politics, American military history, and the evolution of the northern society.
Guide to the Alaska Highway
Traveling across the great northern expanses from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Delta Junction, Alaska, the 1,500-mile Alaska Highway remains one of the greatest driving adventures of all time. Inside you will find details on gas prices, where to camp, how to prepare your vehicle for the journey, and insightful driving tips. Brimming with full-color photography, this updated edition of Guide to the Alaska Highway is the most stunning, the most complete, and most thoroughly researched book on the market today. Arriving in time for the highway's 75th anniversary, this invaluable guide will help travelers tailor a safe, pleasant, and enjoyable drive through some of the most scenic and rugged landscape on Earth. Tips scattered through the guide tell you where to spot wildlife, let you in on a few favorite fishing holes, and highlight important destinations. This guide is perfect for the adventure lover.
The World-famous Alaska Highway
For the ultimate wilderness road trip, this guide is indispensable. From the southernmost community of Homer to Deadhorse, the northern end of the road that meets the Arctic Ocean, the guide details routes, driving conditions, unique people, and all that awaits the adventurous traveler along the way. 90 full-color photos and 6 maps.
The Alaska Highway
"Built in 1942 for the Allied war effort, the highway was originally for the sole use of the military. Soon, however, the military use of the road was supplanted by tourism, oil and gold development, and logging, The authors, both geographers, discuss the read's history and include special in-depth sections on topics ranging from the aurora borealis to the midnight sun; the boreal forest to the First Nations peoples; and the grizzly bear to the king salmon." "Each chapter of The Alaska Highway: A Geographical Discovery contains a description of that day's route, a personal journal entry, and a detailed travel log pointing out the many cultural and natural phenomena encountered along the route."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Alaska Highway in World War II
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a fear of invasion swept North America—particularly the West Coast. Immediate steps needed to be taken to defend the Far Northwest. With Canada’s approval, Washington drew up plans for an Alaska Highway to connect Edmonton, Alberta, with Fairbanks, Alaska, and a pipeline to connect oil fields in the Northwest Territories with the Pacific Coast. Between 1942 and 1946, about 40,000 American military and civilian personnel invaded the Canadian Northwest. Where there had been few or no roads, a highway more than 1,500 miles long was built in less than a year. Navigation facilities were improved, and pipelines were laid from Fairbanks to the Pacific....
Alaska Highway
This photo collection tells the story of the planning, construction, and enduring popularity of the infamous ALCAN highway, a road that stretches 1,500 miles through rugged and isolated terrain.
The Alaska Highway
An automobile traveller's guide to the Alaska Highway (from Dawson Creek, British Columbia through the Yukon to Fairbanks, Alaska). Offers up-to-date information on sportfishing opportunities, wildlife habitats, mileages, campgrounds and services, highway hazards, side trips and key points of interest.
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