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Klondike tales / Jack London ; introduction by Gary Kinder ; notes by Christopher Gair.

by London, Jack, 1876-1916.

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Modern Library, c2001.

Gold mines and mining -- Fiction.

Wilderness survival -- Fiction.

Wilderness areas -- Fiction.

Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Fiction.

Modern Library classics.

9780375756856 (trade pbk.)

037575685X (trade pbk.)

xvi, 281 p. : maps ; 21 cm.

Introduction / Gary Kinder -- From the Son of the Wolf -- The White Silence -- The Son of the Wolf -- In a Far Country -- To the Man on Trail -- The Wisdom of the Trail -- An Odyssey of the North -- From the God of His Fathers -- The God of His Fathers -- Siwash -- Grit of Women -- Where the Trail Forks -- At the Rainbow's End -- From Children of the Frost -- In the Forests of the North -- The Law of Life -- Keesh, the Son of Keesh -- The Death of Ligoun -- Li Wan, the Fair -- The League of the Old Men -- Later Klondike Tales -- Batard -- The Story of Jees Uck -- Love of Life -- The Sun-Dog Trail -- The Wit of Porportuk -- To Build a Fire.

"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."--Publisher description.

Adventure fiction.

Historical fiction.

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