The Alaska Highway
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Travel In Alaska And The Alaska Highway
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Author : United States. Bureau of Public Roads
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Travel In Alaska And The Alaska Highway written by United States. Bureau of Public Roads and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with categories.
Alaska Highway
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Author : Kenneth Coates
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Alaska Highway written by Kenneth Coates and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Travel categories.
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.
The Alaska Highway
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Author : Thomas Patrick Huber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Alaska Highway written by Thomas Patrick Huber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Travel categories.
"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
Guide To The Alaska Highway
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Author : Ron Dalby
language : en
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
Release Date : 2011-04-26
Guide To The Alaska Highway written by Ron Dalby and has been published by Menasha Ridge Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-26 with Travel categories.
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.
Guide To The Alaska Highway
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Author : Ron Dalby
language : en
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
Release Date : 2016-12-19
Guide To The Alaska Highway written by Ron Dalby and has been published by Menasha Ridge Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-19 with Travel categories.
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.
Alaska Highway
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Author : Ed Readicker-Henderson
language : en
Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc
Release Date : 20012-06-15
Alaska Highway written by Ed Readicker-Henderson and has been published by Hunter Publishing, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 20012-06-15 with Travel categories.
The most comprehensive and enjoyable guide to traveling the highway, from British Columbia up to Prudhoe Bay. Covers Fairbanks, Anchorage, Denali National Park, Valdez and much more. Filled with inside tips on where to see wildlife, the sites you shouldn't miss, the best places to camp. You'll also find information on sidetrips along alternate highways: the Top-of-the-World, the Haines, the Stewart-Cassiar, the South Klondike, the Richardson and the Glen. A one-stop resource for Alaska-bound travelers. Includes a detailed chapter on the Alaska Marine Highway, the ferry system that is one of the best ways to see and reach otherwise inaccessible areas. While the Milepost will give you every pullout and scenic view on the highway, this book is great reading about what to do, and what to see on your way. The information is very accurate and interesting. In this book, when you look up a certain place you end up reading on and on.--Amazon.com customer I recently rode my motorcycle up the Alaska Highway and space was pretty limited. I photocopied pages out of various other books, but brought this one along intact. It stayed in my tankbag every day, was brought out at every meal, and was pored over in hotel rooms at night. I'm also a writer, and my Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway became my de facto notebook on the trip--post-it notes of every color peek out from its pages; notes line the margins. There are a finite number of places to stop along the Alaska Highway; most guidebooks will give you pretty much all of them. What makes this one different is its tone. The authors obvious enjoy both the road and writing about it. Personal anecdotes are lightly sprinkled into the text, giving the impression that yes, the authors know what they're talking about. I learned little bits of history about the areas I rode through; not so much that it weighed down the book, but just enough to pique my interest and send me scampering to the library once I got back. Also, the book is laid out very well. The font is easy on the eyes; bold section headers made it easy to find what I was looking for, even while balancing the book on my tankbag after pulling to the side of some gravelly road in the middle of nowhere.--Carolyn Boyce, reader If you think you'll ever want to plan a trip either by car or motorcycle to the great state of Alaska, this book is a must-have. Not only does provide everything you could ever ask for, it comes in a small package that packs away nicely.-- Big D (reader) I took this book with the AAA guidebook on my trip to Alaska, read the AAA intro on the plane there and read only this book for the rest of the trip. We traveled more than 2,000 miles on the Alaska Highway. This book has been a great companion and guide book wherever we go. I even did some more reading on the plane back home because the writing was interesting. It may be partly because Alaska is such an interesting subject; but the book is definitely fun to read.--Amazon.com customer
The Alaska Highway
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Author : Paul Kupperberg
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
The Alaska Highway written by Paul Kupperberg and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Alaska Highway categories.
Profiles the building of the Alaska Highway.
Crooked Road
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Author : David A. Remley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Crooked Road written by David A. Remley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Chronicles the construction of the Alaska Highway and outlines the many obstacles workers had to overcome to complete construction of the 1,519-mile stretch of road. Includes black-and-white photographs.
The Alaska Highway
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Author : Paul Kupperberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
The Alaska Highway written by Paul Kupperberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with United States--History--20th century categories.
North To Alaska
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Author : Kenneth Coates
language : en
Publisher: Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press
Release Date : 1992
North To Alaska written by Kenneth Coates and has been published by Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Transportation categories.
In December 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and seemed to be poised for their most audacious attack yet - the invasion of North America via its least populated region, the Far Northwest. No one doubted that this threat was real, certainly not the U.S. military command. In an act of speedy co-operation, unmatched before or since, the governments of Canada and the U.S.A. agreed to the military's request to build a road, post-haste, across the vast wilderness of the North, so that troops and armaments could be moved rapidly from the continent's heartland to its vulnerable edge in Alaska. Ten thousand soldiers under the command of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rushed north to push a pioneer road 1,500 miles long through the forests and mountains and over the muskeg, the permafrost, and the many icy rivers of the Far Northwest. Fast on their heels came an equally large "army" of civilians - eager to do their bit for the war effort and to earn the colossal wages offered - to build a permanent highway in the pioneer road's muddy tracks. Seven and a half months later the highway was ready for war duty, just as the threat that initiated it collapsed. But their effort was not wasted. The Alaska Highway gave the towns of Fairbanks, Big Delta, Whitehorse, and Fort St. John road access to the South for the first time, and many smaller communities sprang up along its path to service the truckers and tourists who plied the highway. For immediately after the war, driving the highway became a popular vacation for intrepid tourists. Despite the great improvements to the road that have been made over the years, the highway has lost none of its appeal nor any of the romance that surrounded itsbeginnings. In 1992 the Alaska Highway turns fifty, and Ken Coates has written North to Alaska to commemorate the work of those men and women, soldiers and civilians, who endured the bitter cold, the blackflies, the mud, and the murderous mosquitoes to build the road and defend their homeland. The Alaska Highway remains the world's most remarkable highway - remarkable for the speed in which it was built, its military origins, the binational co-operation it symbolizes, and for the spectacular natural beauty and rich history of the land through which it passes. Today it still offers the unique adventure of a 1,500-mile drive through the mysterious North into the land where men once moiled for gold.