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Sailor on Snowshoes: Tracking Jack London's Northern Trail.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Sailor on snowshoes; tracking Jack London's Northern trail.

North, Dick.

Harbour Publishing

2006

237 pages

$19.95

Paperback

PS3523

In 1897, a 21-year-old unemployed Californian named Jack London sailed north to seek gold in the Klondike. This text tells the story of the year he spent in the Yukon Territory, which served as raw material in his later literary career. North also solves the mystery regarding the location of the cabin in which London wrote his name, identifying himself as "miner, author." North operates the Jack ...

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