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National Geographic Guide to the National Parks: Alaska

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This is a typically well designed and beautifully illustrated book from the National Geographic Society. It is great to flip through and grabs your attention. Note though, this is not really a guide to just the National Parks of Alaska. It is more a guide to all the wild areas and tourist sites of Alaska as they relate to the eight National Parks in the state.

For example, of the 42 pages dedicated to Denali National Park, 12 were about the park itself (of which 3 were full page illustrations) 30 pages of the chapter were dedicated to "Exursions from the National Park." This included everything from briefly describing Fairbanks and Talkeetna to a description of the Yukon-Charley Preserve on the Canandian border.

It is a great book, and well worth it for someone looking for a reference to put together an multi-day itinerary based around one of the parks, but if you are looking for more in-depth information about a certain park, you may want to pick up a different reference. On the other hand, if you love nature, Alaska and beautiful photos, this might be a book for you.

Fabulous book!!. It contains all the areas we are going on our upcoming trip to Alaska & more. I didn't realize that when I got this book. It has all we could ask for & so much more. You cannot go wrong with NG!