Alaska And The Klondike Gold Fields

Mary E.,Hitchcock: Two Women in the Klondike. The story of a journey to the gold-fields of Alaska. With 105 illustrations and map, British Library, Historical Print Editions, März 2011, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 1241421641
bTitle:/b Two Women in the Klondike. The story of a journey to the gold-fields of Alaska ... With 105 illustrations and map.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.br/br/The HISTORY OF COLONIAL NORTH AMERICA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection refers to the European settlements in North America through independence, with emphasis on the history of the thirteen colonies of Britain. Attention is paid to the histories of Jamestown and the early colonial interactions with Native Americans. The contextual framework of this collection highlights 16th century English, Scottish, French, Spanish, and Dutch expansion. br/br/++++br/The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:br/++++br/br/b Source Library /b British Librarybr/b Contributors /b Hitchcock, Mary E.; br/b Original Pub Date /b 1899.br/b Physical Description /b xiv. 485 p. ; 8°.br/b Shelfmark /b MFE/33/20025 *1*br/

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Michener, James A..: Alaska. Lonodn, Mandarin,, 1997. ISBN: 0749319763

Paperback,1274 pp, 8°, fine copy, antiquarisch gut erhaltenes Exemplar,, In straightforward, unadorned prose, Michener spins an old-fashioned histor ical adventure as he follows a British expedition's doomed trek across Cana da to the Klondike gold fields in 1897-1899. The group's leader, Lord Evely n Luton, is an arrogant ass whose colossal stubbornness costs the lives of three of the five men. Totally dissimilar is the party's poet, frail, sensi tive Trevor Blythe. Accompanying the four well- bred Englishmen on the journ ey is a shrewd Irish poacher who acts as the "servant." Besides exploring c lass tensions, Michener offers insight into how the British viewed their tw o former colonies--America and Canada--at the turn of the century. But basi cally this is an absorbing little tale of hubris, courage and redemption (L utton, humbled by the tragedy, goes on to help Lloyd George rearm England j ust before WW I), as the dazed adventurers meet Canadian hucksters and frie ndly Indians, and cope with frozen rivers, mosquitoes, scurvy, dwindling fo od. In an afterword, Michener explains the germination of this saga, expand ed from a section cut from his much longer novel Alaska.. K156 ISBN 0749319763 - , ISBN-13: 9780749319762

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