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Travel Made Fiction 'Adventure Travel' to British Columbia and Alaska

Travel Made Fiction 'Adventure Travel' to British Columbia and Alaska

Mark J. Curran

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Trafford Publishing
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2025
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9781698720029
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Travel Made Fiction'Adventure Travel' in British Columbia and Alaskais the 8th in the series of the travel - made - fiction 'Adventure Travel' series by Curran. What is differentis that this time the book is like a travelogue with an abundance of photos, although description onthe places visited appears along with limited fictional remarks by the author.Travel to major sites in Vancouver, B.C., Victoria, B.C. and Vancouver Island, the Inside Passage andPrince Rupert appears in Part I. Travel to Anchorage, Denali National Park, the Kennecott CopperTown and Mill and Root Glacier, the Mat Su Valley, the Hood Float Plane Base in Anchorage and theSeward Fjord appears in Part II. Highlights in Part I are notes on the history of the British in B.C.including the famous railroad hotels, famous sights like the Empress Hotel and its Bengal Lounge,First Nation Culture including totems and murals in Duncan, Chemainus and Campbell River, theLogging Industry in British Columbia and especially the forests and nature. In Alaska Denali andKennecott and Seward Fjord are important. On both trips, eagles, bears, Orcas and Puffins abound.

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