Of course there is Denali National Park with its famed Mount McKinley, but what about the rest of Alask's mountains? Filling in the whole picture is no small undertaking. Alaska is 2.2 times the size of Texas and it had only three significant areas that arguably could be called flat---and those are bounded by mountains. Of the country's 20 highest peaks, 17 are in Alaska. Molaspina Glacier alone is larger than the state of Rhode Island. And a mountain state of such extremes is prone to a few misconceptions. Did you know that parts of Alaska's Aleutian mountain chain are farther west than Hawaii? The deepest snows are not in the frigid north, but in the southwest mountains, where they meet the moist oceanic air masses. And all of Alaska and its mountains are not mostly "up there somewhere by the North Pole"; Ketchikan, nestled in the coastal mountains, is at the same latitude as Dublin. This is the one book to make sense of it all. It brings to life Alaska's major chains of mountain ranges and their unique climate, land form, wildlife and vegetation. In substantive yet readable text and stunning mountain photography; this magnificent land becomes an embraceable part of your heritage.