Description:
Insight Guides Alaska is a beautifully illustrated travel guide that combines stunning photography, inspiring magazine-style features and practical travel advice, helping you discover Alaska's vast wilderness, glaciers, wildlife, coastal towns and Indigenous cultures.
Alongside engaging essays on Alaskan culture, history, wildlife, landscapes and traditions, the guide offers in-depth coverage of key destinations and attractions - from the city trails and museums of Anchorage and the mountain landscapes of Denali to the cruise routes of the Inside Passage, Arctic tundra and coastal fjords.
You'll also find expert sightseeing advice, detailed maps, author recommendations, Editor's Choice highlights, lesser-known gems, a handy travel phrasebook and a free eBook, plus a practical online trip planner to help organise your journey.
This Alaska travel guide covers:
- Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska - Museums, trails, glaciers, wildlife and mountain views
- Denali and the Interior - National parks, tundra, rail journeys and frontier towns
- The Inside Passage - Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, fjords and cruise-port heritage
- The Kenai Peninsula - Coastal towns, fishing, glaciers, wildlife cruises and hiking
- The Arctic and Far North - Tundra landscapes, Indigenous cultures, northern lights and remote roads
- The Aleutians and Southwest - Volcanic islands, wildlife, fishing communities and lesser-known routes
Beautifully curated and visually rich, Insight Guides Alaska is both an inspiring introduction and a practical companion with a trip planner for exploring one of the world's most fascinating destinations.
Start planning your journey through Alaska with Insight Guides.
Brief description: Todd Obolsky's favourite travel experiences include off-roading in Monument Valley, abseiling into New Zealand's Waitomo Caves and sharing the road with a bear cub in Canada's Yukon province. He has updated the Rough Guides to New York, New England, Chicago, Florida, Canada, the USA, Belize and Peru, and wrote and shot images for The Hedonist's Guide to Miami. He can usually be found haunting the bakeries of New York City.