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Book Review
TAMIL
Travelogue
PREMA NANDAKUMAR
AHA, ALASKA: Sivasankari; Vanati Pathippagam, 23, Deenadayalu Street, T. Nagar, Chennai-600017. Rs. 30.
WIELDING A clunky pen to record her Alaska cruise, Sivasankari takes us through 12 days fizzing with cute cries of admiration and excitement. Rich spending, fairytale comforts and the romance of sailing in the Serenade of the Seas. A dream come true!
Sivasankari helps us watch the “bubble net feeding” by a pod of whales in Juneau. The tragedy of a million small fish devoured in a jiffy! There are other sights too like the helicopter trip to Mendenhall glacier, the historic brothel Dolly’s House, Ketchikan’s Totem poles, the Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show and the spectacular Misty fjords seen from a seaplane. Life within the ship and the history of Alaska also have a place in the narrative.
None of this maybe new for the arm-chair traveller browsing the internet. Sivasankari’s travel thus gives new angles to what we have only read about or seen in the National Geographic. Like coming across the Sardarji owner of a jewellery shop in Juneau selling “a variety of chains, rings, bracelets and colourful stones to attract the holidaying traveller.” Ammolites, for instance.
Those fossilised shells of ammonites that had lived 65,000 years ago in the sea, which was declared a precious gem as recently as 1981!
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