The Alaska Cruise Companion - Book And Map Set

[Bubbs33]

Does anyone know if this book is available onboard for purchase or only pre-cruise?  Also, ate such gifts delivered to the room or only a gift certificate? TIA.

[Coral]

You can purchase it in the ship's store. No need to pre-purchase.

[LeeW]

Might want to buy a used book on Amazon or Ebay to read before you go.  We kept the fresh copy (signed by the Captain) that we bought onboard on our first trip.  Took the Ebay copy on the other three trips as well.

[JF - retired RRT]

I bought one on Amazon (used, no map). Got nothing much from it and gave it to one of the people at our table.

[Thrak]

If you are going to buy it get the one onboard. It will have the map and will also be the correct version. There is another one by a different author that people say is not nearly as good. I don't have the book and haven't missed having it but many others say it is great - as long as you get the right one and one that is new so it has the map.

[Coral]

2 hours ago, LeeW said:

Might want to buy a used book on Amazon or Ebay to read before you go.  We kept the fresh copy (signed by the Captain) that we bought onboard on our first trip.  Took the Ebay copy on the other three trips as well.

The actual writer (Rachel Cartwright) used to be a Naturalist for Princess. She is periodically on ships and will sign a copy. I would rather have her signature - she did write the book.

 

Joe Upton was the other author that Princess used to have a contract with. I had his book and it was fine. Probably outdated now.

[milolii]

Hi so does the author sell the book independently.  Interested in purchasing before I cruise.  

[Coral]

7 minutes ago, milolii said:

Hi so does the author sell the book independently.  Interested in purchasing before I cruise.  

No - Princess has exclusive rights on this.

 

Maybe it is Princess and HAL - I don't remember.

Edited July 5, 2019 by Coral

[milolii]

Ok thank you, Coral.  You are so helpful  

[Coral]

12 minutes ago, milolii said:

Ok thank you, Coral.  You are so helpful  

You can buy used copies on some websites. They may or may not have the maps.

[mevs904]

2 hours ago, Coral said:

The actual writer (Rachel Cartwright) used to be a Naturalist for Princess. She is periodically on ships and will sign a copy. I would rather have her signature - she did write the book.

 

Joe Upton was the other author that Princess used to have a contract with. I had his book and it was fine. Probably outdated now.

 

We had the Joe Upton book and map for our 2014 Alaska cruise.  We bought it before the cruise so we could begin reading before we left.  It didn’t seem to be inferior in any way to the Rachel Cartwright book that we checked out on the ship.  I don’t think that we’ll do another Alaska cruise (too many other places to explore), but if we did we’d probably get the Cartwright book.

[salabc]

The Alaska Cruise Companion - Book  do you know if  it's for sale also in the princess hotels ?

[Coral]

6 hours ago, mevs904 said:

 

We had the Joe Upton book and map for our 2014 Alaska cruise.  We bought it before the cruise so we could begin reading before we left.  It didn’t seem to be inferior in any way to the Rachel Cartwright book that we checked out on the ship.  I don’t think that we’ll do another Alaska cruise (too many other places to explore), but if we did we’d probably get the Cartwright book.

Mine wasn't as "colorful" but I got it when Princess was selling it on the ship. The new ones have better pictures. It was fine.

[geoherb]

I had the Upton version and enjoyed reading it before my recent cruises on the Island. Another great book is one published by National Geographic.