Robert W. Service: Best Tales Of The Yukon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0894712012 ISBN 13: 9780894712012

Publisher: Running Press, 1983

In 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to the Yukon Territory. Soon, he was famous as the poet who chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the frozen north. His tales of hard-bitten propectors and sourdoughs in "The Land God Forgot" make vivid, exciting reading. Here are all the brawling, colorful characters that Service immortalized, including One-Eyed Mike, Dangerous Dan McGrew, Pious Pete, Blasphemous Bill -- and, of course, the lady known as Lou.

About the Author:

Robert William Service (1874–1958) was a poet and writer, sometimes referred to as "the Bard of the Yukon". He is best-known for his writings on the Canadian North, including the poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", "The Law of the Yukon", and "The Cremation of Sam McGee". His writing was so expressive that his readers took him for a hard-bitten old Klondike prospector, not the later-arriving bank clerk he actually was. In addition to his Yukon works, Service also wrote poetry set in locales as diverse as South Africa, Afghanistan, and New Zealand. His writing has a decidedly British Empire point of view.

Review:

The Ballad Of Blasphemous Bill
The Ballad Of Gum-boot Ben
The Ballad Of Hard-luck Henry
The Ballad Of One-eyed Mike
The Ballad Of Pious Pete
The Ballad Of The Black Fox Skin: 1
The Ballad Of The Black Fox Skin: 2
The Ballad Of The Black Fox Skin: 3
The Ballad Of The Black Fox Skin: 4
The Ballad Of The Northern Lights
The Black Sheep
The Call Of The Wild
Clancy Of The Mounted Police
Comfort
The Cremation Of Sam Mcgee
Grin
The Harpy
The Heart Of The Sourdough
L'envoi
L'envoi
The Land God Forgot
The Law Of The Yukon
The Little Old Log Cabin
The Lone Trail
Lost
The Low-down White
The Lure Of Little Voices
The Man From Eldorado: 1
The Man From Eldorado: 2
The Man From Eldorado: 3
The Man From Eldorado: 4
The Man From Eldorado: 5
Men Of The High North
The Men That Don't Fit In
Music In The Bush
My Friends
The Parson's Son
The Pines
Premonition
The Prospector
The Reckoning
The Rhyme Of The Remittance Man
The Rhyme Of The Restless Ones
The Shooting Of Dan Mcgrew
The Song Of The Mouth-organ
The Song Of The Wage-slave
The Telegraph Operator
The Three Voices
To The Man Of The High North
The Trail Of Ninety-eight
The Tramps
The Wood-cutter
The Younger Son
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®