This is a Historical ?? novel about Alaska. It starts very slow with the geological activity that forms Alaska. The migration on peoples into and the development of Alaska as only James A Michener could write it.
**James A. Michener** was born in 1907 and raised by a Quaker woman in Pennsylvania. During World War II he served with the U.S. Navy and traveled across the Pacific. His *Tales of the South Pacific* won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. He lived with his wife in Austin, Texas. He was director of the Texas Center for Writers at the University of Texas.
