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Compass American Guides: Alaska's Inside Passage, 1st Edition

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The author describes numerous useful aspects of the cultural and historical attractions of areas along the Inside Passage. My only complaint is that I would like to see more maps with greater detail.

Very well prepared, documented, depicted and written book on the inside passage it's towns, histories, culture, people, local establishments, attractions and a lot more. You'll be glad you bought it.

This book enabled me to decide upon a cruise of the Inside Passage on Holland America Statendam as an economical transportation with room and board to get us from Vancouver to Seward. I was satisfied with the descriptions of what we could expect to see and do. Some of the maps were helpful when we were on site in places like Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan, Glacier Bay. The photos are beautiful and inspiring. The book also let me know what we missed so that we can plan to include those places next time. We felt more at home in each place visited thanks to this book. It is easy to take along.

I highly recommend this book for people who are going to go on an Alaskan cruise of the Inside Passage which docks at Juneau, Skagway and Ketchikan and stops at Glacier Bay. The book has wonderful pictures, some history and talks about some of the shore excursions you might want to sign up for.

This is a tremendously informative book, and really stimulated my desire to take a cruise on the Inside Passage to Alaska. It's loaded with great photos and sidebars with great local information. It's been updated in a newer edition, but I'm greatly satisfied with this one.