![]() Century after century, with little modification, these people survived, feeding and clothing themselves by their skills as hunters and fishermen. Eskimos, Aleuts, Athapascans, Tlingits crossed to this breathtakingly beautiful land in small boats, or, when the floor of the Bering Strait was exposed, they came on foot, as did various huge exotic animals that now no longer exist. Alaska, as the author's admirers have learned to expect, displays the same masterly placement of imagined characters among genuine participants in events of history.Īlaska and its numerous islands have for so many thousands of years been occupied by peoples from Siberia that the "discovery" of this continent by Columbus seems like a current event. Now almost thirty years later, his subject is our forty-ninth, which had been admitted earlier that same year. Michener's first great historical novel Hawaii, which honored the entry of our fiftieth state into the Union in 1959. Millions of readers were deeply moved, as well as enlightened, by James A. Jacket design and illustration by Wendell Minor ![]()
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