The Great Alone
by Janet Dailey
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Fiction. Romance. A sweeping multigenerational saga of the founding of the state of Alaska by an iconic author with more than three hundred million copies of her books in print. Spanning two hundred years, this saga of romance and adventure in the untamed Alaska wilderness begins with Tasha Tarakanov, a beautiful Aleut woman, and her beloved Andrei, a noble and ambitious Cossack hunter. From their union come seven generations of proud Alaskans, including the beautiful Marisha, who finds her show more fortune as a legendary madam, and Wylie Cole, who bravely defends his homeland during World War II. Glorious and grand, The Great Alone is a story of brave young men and women, whose dreams, heritage, betrayals, loves, and fortitude are as vast and wild as the land from which they sprang. show lessTags
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It wasn't the book for me, which isn't to say it wasn't good. For those who really get into the historical aspect of things, they'd really like it. For me, the parts that got really in depth in the history of Alaska read more like a text book than a story. The parts that were more about the characters were really good.
A great book set in Alaska. I couldn't put this down and really enjoyed it.
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Janet Dailey was born on May 21, 1944 in Storm Lake, Iowa. She was a romance writer, who wrote over 150 books during her lifetime. Her works include No Questions Asked, the Calder series, the Americana series, and Merry Christmas, Cowboy. In 1993, she received the Romance Writers of America Lifetime Achievement Award. She died on December 14, 2013 show more at the age of 69. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Common Knowledge
- Original title
- The Great Alone
- Original publication date
- 1986
- Important places
- Alaska Territory, USA
- Epigraph
- Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear, And the icy mountains hemmed you in with a silence you 'most could hear; with only the howl of a timber wolf, and you camped there in the cold, a half-dead ... (show all)thing in a stark, dead world, clean made for the muck called gold--
Excerpt from the poem "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" by Robert Service - First words
- Muffled shouts from outside roused Luka Ivanovich Kharakov from his slumber.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Ace claimed that she hadn't really died, that she'd simply moved on to a new place to start over.
- Original language
- English
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Statistics
- Members
- 246
- Popularity
- 131,979
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.50)
- Languages
- Dutch, English, French
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 27
- ASINs
- 8
