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Alaska & Canada's Inside Passage Cruise Tour Guide: City Maps, History, Native Culture Plus a 6-Foot Fold-Out Map of Cruise Route from Puget Sound to

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I was surprised at some of the other reviewers who expected this to be a book. It is a 6-foot long by 12-inch fold out map of the inside passage from Glacier Bay to Seattle. It does have some basic facts and information on the reverse side as well as basic road maps of most of the towns along the passage. I'm looking forward to tracking my entire cruise route on this relatively detailed map. If you're looking for more detail, I think you'd have to get a topo or a nautical map.

A foot wide and eleven feet tall IS a weird shape for a chart, but I find it to be very enjoyable because it shows the whole inside passage in detail. Where else can you find something like this? Let's hope this map stays around. It's a great concept and allows one a greater appreciation of the region.

The chart is good for general information contained in one document. The quality of construction is excellent, allowing opening and closing many times without any tearing. As many of the cruies ships go further north of the present chart, the chart would be of greater value if it were extended to the Seward AK area. The course on the chart was a bit confusing as the ship I was on used a different route.

I thought this was an excellent map of the inside passage. Because it is a six foot fold out map it shows the details of the little passes and islands you don't normally get in guidebooks and complemented the book I bought, Alaska By Cruise Ship. What do you for ten bucks nowadays anyway?

when i read the description in amazon on this "book", i thought it would make a pragmatic addition to my small library on the inside passage, its history and peoples. this is nothing more than a non-detailed not-to-scale map with information printed on the back which anyone who has attended high school would know. this is not a book. at $2.00 i would not have written a negative review (my first), at $3.00 i would have felt cheated, at $10.36 i feel tricked and outraged.

When I received this item, I thought they had forgotten to send me the book and had only enclosed the maps. They sent it to me again and then I realised that this flat map was the whole thing. Very dissapointed. Not much info for the price.

This is a great map -- very easy to fold out various sections without having to open the entire six-foot map! It is printed on high quality material and comes with a protective sleeve. This would be great for someone taking a cruise on the inside passage and wanting to follow the route while on board the ship. The little city maps are great, too. Definitely not a tour guide, per se, but a very nice map. I just placed an order for the "companion" by the same authors, titled "Canada's Yukon and South Central Alaska Tour Guide."

This is a marvelously detailed, 6-foot-long map of the Inside Passage, from Vancouver to past Juneau and Skagway. It's good for daydreaming, or for identifying the various islands as you pass through them on a cruise ship. I'm delighted that I found this little treasure on Amazon.com, since I had been searching diligently for it.

If your into geography and topography then this well detailed map fold out
is a perfect carry along on your inside passage trip. Cruise routes, ice fields, elevations, land mass identities and a whole lot more will make your cruise that much more enjoyable and informative. Great educational tool for kids too.

I used this map on a cruise in Alaska and it was very helpful in understanding where we were! Everyone that saw the map loved it and asked where i had purchased it!