KLONDIKE TALES(ISBN=9780375756856)

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.

Biographical Note
Introduction by 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
  Bgltard
  The Story ofJees Uck
  Love of Life
  The Sun-Dog Trail

  The Wir of Porporruk

  To Build a Fire

Maps

Notes

Note on tbe Text