The majestic history of the longest and most ambitious road built in American history, in celebration of its 50th anniversary. Northwest Epic is the story of the explorers, aviators, soldiers, and courageous laborers who toiled throught the early 1940s, racing against time to finish the 1,500-mile road so that the Japanese couldn't invade Alaska after Pearl Harbor.
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The majestic history of the longest and most ambitious road built in American history, in celebration of its 50th anniversary. Northwest Epic is the story of the explorers, aviators, soldiers, and courageous laborers who toiled throught the early 1940s, racing against time to finish the 1,500-mile road so that the Japanese couldn't invade Alaska after Pearl Harbor.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0312077548. DJ and boards show very light shelf wear, remainder marks on top and bottom page edges.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Map endpapers, B&W photographs and maps. Notes bibliography and index at back; Large 8vo 9"-10" tall; 368 pages; "The Alaska Highway--with its hundreds of bridges, chain of airfields, and oil refinery and pipeline system (known as CANOL)--opened to traffic in late 1942 and was in full use one year later. Though one of the greatest feats of twentieth-century macro-engineering, this huge project sparked as much protest as patriotism. Critics argued that the road was in the wrong place and would have little postwar value; a well-publicized investigation of CANOL's excesses gave a critical boost to the career of Senator Harry S. Truman. Despite such controversy, the completion of the highway provided a historical watershed for the territory of Alaska, for in the decades that followed, the land would be propelled, often reluctantly, from a pristine refuge, a nineteenth-century land inhabited by natives, dreamers, and rugged individualists, into the twentieth century." (jacket blurb)
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. SIGNED by author w/gift inscriptions. First edition w/full number line. Prev. owner's gift inscription, also. Minor wear to cover and jacket. In mylar protector.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. pp. xiv 2 368 with over 70 original photos, maps amd illustrations Previous owners stamp on verso of FEP."A chronicle of the building of the Alaska highway describes the explorers, aviators, soldiers, and laborers who toiled throughout the early 1940s to build 1, 500 miles of gravel road through the uncharted land of Alaska." 8vo.
