Warning: Wikipedia contains spoilers.
Published in 1988 by Random House, Alaska is 868 pages long. Along with the reading, Michener provides a table of contents, a list of acknowledgements, and a Fact and Fiction section. The third item offers the reader an insight into what occurred in real life and what the author invented.
Throughout the novel are (at the beginnings of chapters) and maps (frontispiece, pages 102-103, and inside back cover). There is also an amount of impressive calligraphy. The maps are credited to to Jean Paul Tremblay. Carole Lowenstein is responsible for the book's physical and calligraphy.
The jacket of Alaska features an illustration on the front and a photograph of Michener on the back. The illustration is an oval-shaped sketch of items easily identifiable with the state of Alaska.
The jacket design and aforementioned sketch are credited to Wendell Minor. Michener's picture is credited to Michael A. Lewis of the Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska.
It is important to remember that although Alaska is based on fact, Michener uses factual people or places in fictional events. He also invents characters, places, and like any other novelist. Alaska is not a history textbook.
Contents
Drawings and Maps
Book's Jacket Design
They include (clockwise):
Fact and Fiction
Acknowledgements
Synopsis
Chapter I: The Clashing Terranes
Chapter II: The Ice Castle
Chapter III: People of the North
Chapter IV: The Explorers
Chapter V: The Duel
Chapter VI: Lost Worlds
Chapter VII: Giants in Chaos
Chapter VIII: Gold