Parallel Destinies: An Alaskan Odyssey Book

Parallel Destinies is the bigger story of the Alaskan Interior's development. It focuses on civilization's hub in the century's first half and now an Alaska state park, Rika's Roadhouse. Featuring over one hundred archival photographs, the book cameos the Athabaskan Indian and Yugoslavian cultures intersecting in the development of the great Tanana River valley between 1867-1969. The roadhouse's builder, John Hajdukovich, was the window through which the Interior's development may be understood. John was the law, a trader and the life support system to the Upper Tanana Native. He was the creator of the federal Tetlin Reserve and the Interior's most competent big game guide. Between 1904-1942, this Big Delta roadhouse was the hub of civilization between Fairbanks and the Canadian border. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner editors, Patricia Watts and Dermot Cole, valued the uncommon quality of the book, printed in Belgrade. The graphics artist, Dragan Miskovic, is one of Belgrade's best and imported from Spain heavy high-gloss paper for the spectacular photographs. Judy Ferguson is a free lance columnist for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Heartland magazine. Parallel Destinies develops the historical, special connection, the mystique between Alaska and the Slavic East. This book portraits the parallel destinies of the Balkans and Alaska, the Last Frontier.