The Alaska Highway (Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway) [Paperback]

Ed Readicker-Henderson (Author), Lynn Readicker-Henderson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway | Publication Date: June 2003

An adventure guide to the Alaska Highway. It offers a mix of practical travel information along with details of adventurous activities, which should be fun for everyone no matter what their age or ability. The volume provides information on the history, culture, climate and geography of the area, covering its people and their roots, museums, historic sites and local attractions. There is advice on where to eat and stay, transportation, practical concerns, useful websites, e-mail addresses, tourism offices and detailed regional and town maps, that feature walking and driving tours. This third edition provides a guide to travelling the Highway from British Columbia through the Yukon and Alaska to Prudhoe Bay. It also covers sidetrips to the Glacier Highway, Denali Highway, Richardson Highway and the Top-of-the-World Highway, along with towns such as Fairbanks, Anchorage, Dawson City and Skagway along the way.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"... plenty of background on history ... extensive bibliography... includes tourist offices, wildlife photography, driving precautions, and customs information." -- Travel Reference Library On-Line

"These useful guides are highly recommended... " -- Library Journal

"[Adventure Guides] direct you into the great outdoors... the information on trekking routes, canoeing, wildlife refuges is well researched." -- The Sunday Telegraph

About the Author

Lynn & Ed Readicker-Henderson are the authors of Hunter's Adventure Guide to the Inside Passage and Coastal Alaska. They know the area intimately.

Product Details

• Paperback: 462 pages
• Publisher: Hunter Publishing; 3rd edition (June 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588431177
• ISBN-13: 978-1588431172
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,320,106 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars *The* book to bring, March 19, 2005

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Carolyn Boyce "bluepoof" (Bay Area, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Alaska Highway (Adventure Guide to the Alaska Highway) (Paperback)

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.