Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : 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---
Author : Jack London
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : 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.
Author : David Meissner
Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1629797847
Winner of the Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction The remarkable tale of two young men during the Klondike Gold Rush, told through first-hand diaries, letters, and more—“excellent reading” for middle grade fans of The Call of the Wild and adventure stories (School Library Journal) As thousands head north in search of gold, Marshall Bond and Stanley Pearce join them, booking passage on a steamship bound for the Klondike goldfields. The journey is life threatening, but the two friends make it to Dawson City, in Canada, build a cabin, and meet Jack London—all the while searching for the ultimate reward: gold! A riveting, true, action-packed adventure, with their telegrams, diaries, and letters, as well as newspaper articles and photographs. An author’s note, timeline, bibliography, and further resources encourage readers to dig deeper into the Gold Rush era.
Author : Will Hobbs
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0061963690
"Gold!" Jason shouted at the top of his lungs. "Read all about it! Gold discovered in Alaska!" Within hours of hearing the thrilling news, fifteen-year-old Jason Hawthorn jumps a train for Seattle, stow away on a ship bound for the goldfields, and joins thousands of fellow prospectors attempting the difficult journey to the Klondike. The Dead Horse Trail, the infamous Chilkott Pass, and a five-hundred-mile trip by canoe down the Yukon River lie ahead. With help from a young writer named Jack London, Jason and his dog face moose, bears, and the terrors of a subartic winter in this bone-chilling survival story. 00-01 Tayshas High School Reading List, 01-02 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist (Gr 4-6), 01-02 Young Hoosier Book Award Masterlist (Gr 6-8), 01-02 William Allen White Children's Book Award Masterlist, and 01 Heartland Award for Excellence in YA Lit Finalist Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council, 2000 Best Books for Young Adults (ALA), and 2000 Quick Picks for Young Adults (Recomm. Books for Reluctant Young Readers)
Author : Jack London
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 1912
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Robert William Service
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,77 MB
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781015403338
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Will Hobbs
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0061963631
The great race across Alaska! As Dawson City goes up in flames, Jason Hawthorn itches to join the new rush for gold in Nome, 1,700 miles away. He and his brothers have been cheated out of their sawmill, so when a $20,000 prize is announced for the winner of a race to Nome, Jason enters. His partner in the canoe is Jamie Dunavant, the adventurous girl he loves. Will they make it to the finish line, despite the hazards of the Yukon River, two dangerous rivals, and the terrors of the open sea?
Author : Jack London
Publisher :
Page : 2557 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : 9780804720588
Author : Brian Castner
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 077101869X
A gripping and wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98. One hundred thousand men and women rushed heedlessly north to make their fortunes; very few did, but many thousands of them (and their pack animals) died in the attempt. The electrifying announcement in 1897 that gold was to be found in wildly enriching quantities in the Klondike River region in remote Alaska was demonically well-timed to attract an exodus of economically desperate Americans. Within weeks, tens of thousands of them were embarking from western ports to throw themselves at some of the harshest terrain on the planet--in winter, yet--woefully unprepared, with no experience at all in mining or mountaineering. It was a mass delusion that quickly proved deadly. Brian Castner tells the unvarnished yet always striking and often amazing truth of this greed-fuelled migration.
Author : Gorman Beauchamp
Publisher : Borgo Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 29,60 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN :
