By Jack London
ISBN-10: 0806129204
ISBN-13: 9780806129204
ISBN-10: 0806171146
ISBN-13: 9780806171142
The decision of the Wild, by way of Jack London, is one in every of America’s best-known novels. at the moment released in additional than twenty separate variants in English by myself, this novel concerning the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896 to 1899 has been always in print because it first seemed in 1903.Many variants of the decision of the Wild have distorted the unique textual content: the violence is changed, the language is sanitized, and the punctuation and spelling are modernized. This re-creation duplicates the unique, which London himself edited and licensed.
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The Rush, which had ended in 1899, was still fresh in the public mind. Tens of thousands of persons had left home for the Klondike, and for many months feature stories on the Rush and the region had appeared in most major magazines of the day. Some of the larger newspapers had for weeks devoted entire sections to Klondike coverage. But now, a century later, few people other than historiansor residents of the Yukonknow much about the facts of the Gold Rush. Fewer still are familiar with the geography of the Northland.
22 November 1897: Buck leaves Dyea on the Chilkoot Trail for Dawson City. We know that the team is the first one on the ice that winter and that one portion of the river (the Thirtymile) is not completely frozen. In 1897 the river closed at Dawson on 13 November; it would have frozen about two weeks later at Whitehorse. 1 December 1897: On the shore of Lake Laberge, about eighty starving huskies attack the team at their campsite. 22 December 1897: The team arrives at Dawson City, Yukon, at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike rivers.
For the Love of a Man 49 VII. The Sounding of the Call 60 Notes 83 Bibliography 103 Page ix Illustrations All illustrations follow page 72. Maps 1. San Francisco and Vicinity, 1898 2. The Gold Rush Corridor 3. Canadian Yukon and Northern Territory of British Columbia, 1897 Figures 1. New Park ("Judge Miller's Place") 2. Judge Bond's ("Judge Miller's") House 3. Marshall and Louis Bond with Their Dog Jack ("Buck") 4. Healy & Wilson's Store, Dyea, Alaska (circa 1897) 5. Dog Team and Sled with Gee-Pole 6.
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