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Airdate: Great Alaskan Railroad Journeys

Michael Portillo heads north next week, armed with his 1899 Appleton's Guidebook to Alaska.

Michael Portillo heads off on Great Alaskan Railroad Journeys next week on SBS, armed with his 1899 Appleton’s Guidebook to Alaska.

This is a 5 part series which screened in the UK in January.

“Ninilchik to Spencer Whistlestop”
Michael Portillo heads for the Last Frontier of the United States armed with his 1899 Appleton’s Guide-Book to Alaska. Written by an intrepid 19th-century female explorer, the book points Michael to ‘sublime scenery’ in the 49th state and fresh insight into the newly explored lives and customs of its inhabitants. Beginning his journey amid the snow-capped mountains and ice-cold inlets of the Kenai Peninsula, Michael finds the golden onion domes of a Russian Orthodox church along with traditional Russian food and costume and discovers that, 150 years ago, Alaska was a Russian colony.

7:30pm Tuesday on SBS.

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