Lonely Planet Pacific Northwest (Lonely Planet Travel Survival Kit)
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Published: September 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 856
ISBN-13: 9780864422408
Subjects: Travel & holiday guides; Travel - United States; Guidebooks; Travel; North America; USA; United States - General; United States - Pacific - Oregon; Essays & Travelogues; Northwest, Pacific
First sentence: Nearly 20,000 years ago, when the accumu ice of the great polar glaciers of the Pleistocene epoch (commonly referred to as the Ice Age) lowered sea levels throughout the world, humans migrated from Siberia to Alaska via a then-existing land bridge across what is now the Bering Straight, becoming the ancestors of the Native Americans.