Lonely Planet Pacific Northwest
Contributors: Daniel Schechter (Editor); Jennifer Snarski (Editor); Debra Miller (Editor); Judy Jewell (Editor)
Edition: 3rd edition
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Published: May 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9781864503777
Subjects: Travel & holiday guides; United States - West - Pacific (General); Travel; Travel - Foreign; Northwest Territories; Western & Pacific Coast states; United States - Pacific - Oregon
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.