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
Tales of the Klondike
β Scribed by London, Jack
- Book ID
- 106877176
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 99 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780140068825
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β¦ Synopsis
A collection of twenty-three stories about the Klondike gold rush of 1897 describes the brutal and frozen Yukon landscape and the extreme tactics men adopted to survive the ordeal.
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Jack London was born in San Francisco and grew up in poverty, leaving school at 14 and spending an itinerant life as a seaman and hobo. At the age of 21 he joined the thousands of men seeking their fortune in the Klondike Gold Rush. London discovered no gold in Alaska, but he returned to San Francis
Im Jahr 1897 berichteten die Zeitungen ΓΌber die Entdeckung unermesslicher Goldvorkommen im Gebiet des kanadischen Klondike-Flusses. Hoffnungslose, Verzweifelte, aber auch Abenteurer aus aller Welt machen sich auf, um in der Wildnis Kanadas ihr GlΓΌck zuversuchen. Zu letzteren zΓ€hlten vier AngehΓΆrige