Alaska: The Cruise-Lover's Guide

by Paul Grescoe, Audrey Grescoe

A pretty typical guide without accommodations. A reasonable number of color photos, maps, and (b&w) historic pictures. Text covers history, commerce, points of interest. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

272 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Paul Grescoe has contributed to most of the major Canadian magazines and has also written books, including detective novels and The Merchants of Venus, about the Harlequin publishing empire.

Paul Grescoe has been chronicling Western Canadian entrepreneurs for decades--from the legendary Vancouver billionaire Jim Pattison ("Jimmy") to the Winnipeg couple who founded the Harlequin romance empire ("The Merchants of Venus"). With his wife, Audrey, he is also a compiler of three recent volumes of private correspondence that illuminate Canadian history. They live on Bowen Island, near Vancouver, B.C.

Awards:
Arthur Ellis Award
* 1992 Best First Novel: Flesh Wound

Reviews

[Jody · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book wasn't quite what I thought. What I was actually looking for was a book that compared cruise lines, ports, and excursions. About half of the book is history, and it's interesting, just not what I was looking for. The remainder of the book focuses on the ports of call. By the time I got to that point, the cruise was already booked, so I only read the ports of call that were on our itinerary - Vancouver, Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, and Anchorage. I did make some decisions about excursions in Vancouver based on this book.