Klondike Tales
Title | Klondike Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Jack London |
Publisher | Modern Library |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2010-06-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307757498 |
As a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London’s best and most defining work. With remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes the punishing adversity that awaited men in the brutal, frozen expanses of the Yukon, and the extreme tactics these adventurers and travelers adopted to survive. As Van Wyck Brooks observed, “One felt that the stories had been somehow lived–that they were not merely observed–that the author was not telling tales but telling his life.” This edition is unique to the Modern Library, featuring twenty-three carefully chosen stories from London’s three collected Northland volumes and his later Klondike tales. It also includes two maps of the region, and notes on the text.
Klondike
Title | Klondike PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Berton |
Publisher | Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | 498 |
Release | 2011-02-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0385673647 |
With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a poker game; and Roddy Connors, who danced away a fortune at a dollar a dance. We meet dance-hall queens, paupers turned millionaires, missionaries and entrepreneurs, and legendary Mounties such as Sam Steele, the Lion of the Yukon. Pierre Berton's riveting account reveals to us the spectacle of the Chilkoot Pass, and the terrors of lesser-known trails through the swamps of British Columbia, across the glaciers of souther Alaska, and up the icy streams of the Mackenzie Mountains. It contrasts the lawless frontier life on the American side of the border to the relative safety of Dawson City. Winner of the Governor General's award for non-fiction, Klondike is authentic history and grand entertainment, and a must-read for anyone interested in the Canadian frontier.
Klondike Women
Title | Klondike Women PDF eBook |
Author | Melanie J. Mayer |
Publisher | Swallow Press |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Collects photographs and accounts of the adventures of women on the trails to the Klondike gold fields.
Back to the Klondike and Superdoo
Title | Back to the Klondike and Superdoo PDF eBook |
Author | Walt Disney Productions |
Publisher | BDD Promotional Books Company |
Total Pages | 72 |
Release | 1990-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780792452379 |
Scrooge McDuck reminisces about Valentine's Day for his nephews in Back to the Klondike; the Woodchucks have an adventure with aliens in Superdoo.
The Great Gold Rush
Title | The Great Gold Rush PDF eBook |
Author | William Henry Pope Jarvis |
Publisher | London : J. Murray |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Canadian fiction |
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Women of the Klondike
Title | Women of the Klondike PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Backhouse |
Publisher | Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Gold miners |
ISBN |
Here are the stories of those fascinatingly diverse women -- entrepreneurs, domestics, nuns, doctors, nurses, and journalists -- who played a critical role in the Klondike gold rush at the turn of the century.
Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush
Title | Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Lourie |
Publisher | Henry Holt Books For Young Readers |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2017-03-28 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0805097570 |
-A middle grade biography of Jack London that sheds light on how he drew upon adventure and life experience to create works of literature---