![]() ![]() Azazruk, a shaman who lived ``when bears were as tall as trees,'' understood animal existence and questioned the seeming absurdity of death. These people and their experiences both dramatize and outline the history of the place. ``Alaska'' traces the earliest hunter inhabitants and their descendants, the Eskimos, Aleuts, Athapascans, and Tlingits, and later, Russians, Americans, and others. ![]() Reading a historical novel is always fun, but it is more informative if the reader is aware when the writer is taking creative liberties with people and events.ĭespite the wealth of background information, it is people rather than events that shape Michener's books. ``Alaska'' has such a section, a two-page chapter-by-chapter outline. In his recent books, Michener has written prefaces to enable the reader to separate fact from fiction. These creations are often vast and demanding because of their length and the author's ambition to include almost everything while remaining an entertaining novelist. Michener creates epics about countries and states and their human and wildlife inhabitants, and makes speculations about human society and culture existing before recorded history. ![]()
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