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Summary: A college honors student loves this book. Sick.
Review: I have very little time since I am in an Honors program at a tough New England university. A friend told me of Peter Jenkins' books, I looked for one and chose LOOKING FOR ALASKA. I have been visualizing me in Alaska since I developed an intense facination with world geography. Peter transported me, he had a strange power over me for the hours I read LOOKING FOR ALASKA. I have never laughed hysterically and cried from the depths of my soul while reading the same book. Thanks for lifting me higher, Peter Jenkins. I will be coming with you AGAIN.
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Summary: A Travel Writer/Photographer Like No Other. Inspiring.
Review: No wonder Peter Jenkins has been a best seller for so long, even when at times he takes looks at people and places that are not chic or hip...It is because he mines the soul and essence of the place. He spends large amounts of time in our in-a-hurry, throw away society listening and watching and experiencing other peoples worlds BEFORE formulating an opinion (WOW, that's an original idea for a journalist).. He doesn't even seem to have one of these pathetic agenda's that so many media types so tranparantly have, like they are marching lock-step.. In LOOKING FOR ALASKA, maybe his best book yet, there is a refreshingly wide variety of people and beliefs, just like in the read world. Some of the books I have read on Alaska might make you think there is nothing but wilderness and wild animals or just Natives or just Cruise ships or just off-the-road hermits......THIS view of ALASKA is the most complete I've read, and I think I have read them all....and Peter Jenkins leaves us knowing if there are this many fascinating, complicated Alaskans there have to be thousands and thousands more. How exciting... If you ever get the feeling the world is coming to an end, that all the bad news about man's inhumanity to man is the overwhelming human condition rush out and READ Peter Jenkins' book..you will be refreshed as he has been by his twenty five years of travel and exploring.. PROBABLY HIS BEST BOOK YET. And to add to this recommendation, Peter is an excellent photographer. His pictures, which lavishly illustrate his book and add nothing to the cost compared to other best selling travel writers' books, enrich what he has to show us all. THANKS Peter for taking us with you.
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Summary: Don't Miss This One!
Review: LOOKING FOR ALASKA by Peter Jenkins in an Alaska lover's book. It takes us to our favorite places and introduces us to several special people, the kind you meet everywhere you travel throughout the state. For readers not so familiar with the state, it gives you a real sense of the beauty, the size, and the reality of living in the "Great Land". Peter's style of writing makes you feel you are along on this wonderful journey. Thanks, Peter, for taking me back to my "adopted" state!
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Summary: Looking for Alaska - - Newest work by Peter Jenkins
Review: Looking for Alaska is a realistic view of our 49th state, The Last Frontier. By living with Alaskans and travelling throughout the state, Mr. Jenkins has captured the thoughts and feelings of many people who visit there and decide to make it their permanent home. From the town of Seward to the native village of Kotzebue; on to Barrow and into the Alaskan bush, every page makes you want to explore the state on your own. Peter Jenkins is an author who brings his personal experiences to a reader in a manner that leaves you wanting more as evidenced by two of his earlier works, "Across China" and "A Walk Across America."
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Summary: Wow
Review: Most books about Alaska focus on the majestic outdoors. Peter Jenkins talks about the people -- who they are and what they do. Of course, what they do is so intrinsically tied to the outdoors that the reader is left with an indelible picture of life in this rugged, forbidding land. Peter, along with his family, takes us to all parts of Alaska, from the rain forests of the southwest to points further than the northernmost tips of land. He introduces us to lifestyles radically different from those most of us have ever known, presented against the backdrop of water, mountains, bears, whales, salmon, and everything else that makes Alaska unique and wonderful. For anyone interested in Alaska, this is a must-read book. It will open your eyes to more than just the heights of the mountain peaks and the vast distances between them.
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Summary: He swings! It's another hit for Peter Jenkins!
Review: Over the years we've come to expect certain things from Peter Jenkins' books. We look for the adventure, the enduring human spirit, his point of view on all things that confront him. Across America or Along the Edge of it or even through China we've all followed him, word for word, page after page. Now, we get to see what I believe is a new side to Peter. Not as young as he used to be, not quite the lean muscular figure of the walk days, we get to travel with Peter on still some excellent adventures. But, you know, I'm not as lean as I used to be, and I'm not as young as I was when I read the Walk and China books, so I can relate to these new adventures. These are adventures I could picture myself having. It's almost like having a friendly smiling travel brochure in book form. His writing is still as descriptive as always, finding the right analogy to fit the situation. You can go from comfortably reading in favorite overstuffed chair to the edge of your seat in a few paragraphs as he describes the dangers of brown bears and moose who invade neighborhoods up there. I believe that I would find a book about his adventures in a nursing home entertaining in the next 40 years. One unexpected jewel that turned up in this book as the added writings of his daughter Rebekah <sp?>. Now a young lady and out finding her own adventures Miss Jenkins turns an excellent phrase and added a refreshing new twist to one of my favorite authors books. I am pretty sure we'll be seeing another Jenkins' venturing out into the world and taking us along in book form later. You ask me, you cannot ever go wrong with a book written by Peter. Even more entertaining is his slide show he brings to book stores across the country when he was touring the USA. As nice a man as you'd ever want to meet, as we left the book store my wife, a recent convert to his writings said to me, "You just want to ask him over to your house for dinner when you meet him." So, next time you're in Portland, Peter, you'll be well fed.
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Summary: Found Alaska
Review: This was an incredible story. It was interesting, funny and sad. It's not the easiest read, but very worthwhile. I paid my 11 year old $5 to read the first 100 pages and she plans to finish it for a school project.
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Summary: Showing a side of Alaska that I missed
Review: I lived in Alaska for three years and did manage to see some of the sights between Anchorage and Fairbanks. Having said that, I found this book an eye opener and portal to a side of Alaska I'd only glimpsed or heard about. I liked the individual stories he sprinkled throughout the book combined with his description of the land. Sometimes the chronology seemed to be confused but it did not detract from my enjoyment of the book. I wish he had had more to say about Anchorage as it is a beautiful and vibrant city. The depictions of life in the heart of winter brought back memories of the cold yet beautiful state that is Alaska.
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Summary: escape from the tropical heat
Review: Looking for Alaska is a book that makes you want to be in the beauty of Alaska one minute and really glad that you are not there the next.
From Peters descriptions of the beauty of the scenery , to the warmth of the population and the diversity of the people, the humorous story of the rescue of Mother moose and her baby from a swimming pool, (one wonders at the need of an outside swimming pool in Alaska) to the spine chilling account of a Bear attack and attacks by other animals, Looking for Alaska is a good read from cover to cover.
Peter meets many different people on his travels and they all open up to him with the result that the reader feels the enjoyment and the fear of day to day living in this wild part of the world.
Thank you Peter, the vividness of your writing took me away from the sweltering heat of Brisbane's hottest summer in 90 years, and in some ways made me even appreciate that heat!!
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Summary: The next best thing to being there yourself!
Review: Peter Jenkins has an amazing gift. He introduces you, the reader, to the people and towns that create the essence of Alaska. Peter Jenkins captures the energy of what is around him and retells his adventures with such realisim and depth that when you close the book and close your eyes you feel as if you had been there next to him, experiencing his adventures first hand. If you want to know the true Alaska, Peter will show you the way. There are monstrous breeching whales, fishing expeditions in the fridgid ocean water and stories from the people who have lived in the land of Alaska their entire lives. This book was an honor to read and I highly recommend it. Sit back, relax and enjoy a magical trip to one of the most beautiful places on earth.
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