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In this quintessential adventure story, Jack London takes readers on an arduous journey through the forbidding Alaskan landscape during the gold rush of the 1890s. Buck, a rangy mixed breed used to a comfortable, sun-filled life as a family dog, is stolen by a greedy opportunist and sold to dog traffickers. In no time, Buck finds himself on a team of sled dogs run ragged in the harsh winter of the Klondike. In a... (more)

Late Nights on Air: A Novel

by Elizabeth Hay

The eagerly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs . Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined. Dido and... (more)

The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)

The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)

by Malvina G. Vogel, Jack London

With an introduction from award winning K.A. Applegate, White Fang is one of London's classic tales of survival and one of his most popular stories. White Fang is part dog, part wolf, and the lone survivor of his family. In his lonely world, he soon learns to follow the law of the North--kill or be killed.

The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories

The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories

by Alex Kershaw, Earle Labor, Jack London

This collection includes The Call of the Wild and its companion novel, White Fang, as well as all of Jack London's famous dog stories--"Batard," "Moon-Face," "Brown Wolf," "That Spot," and "To Build a Fire."

Termination Dust

by Sue Henry

With her award-winning debut novel, Muder On Iditarod Trail , Sue Henry established herself as one of the most celebrated new mystery writers. In TERMINATION DUST, her much-anticipated second Alex Jensen mystery, Sue Henry again seizes the rich history of Alaska and Canada's forgotten frontiers and delivers a fast-paced mystery with one of the most adventurous and charming detectives around. The virgin landscape... (more)

To Build a Fire: and other stories (Tor Classics)

To Build a Fire: and other stories (Tor Classics)

by Jack London

TO BUILD A FIRE is one of Jack London's most beloved short stories. A heartbreaking tale set in the vast wintry landscape of the North, it endures as one of the greatest adventures ever written.

Yukon Ho!

by Bill Watterson

The spirit of childhood leaps to life again with boundless energy and magic in Yukon Ho!, the newest collection of adventures featuring rambunctious six-year-old Calvin and his co-conspirator tiger-chum, Hobbes. Picking up where The Essential Calvin and Hobbes left off, Yukon Ho! is sure to begin an immediate reign at the top of bestseller lists everywhere!

Klondike: The life and death of the last great gold rush / by Pierre Berton

Klondike: The life and death of the last great gold rush / by Pierre Berton

by Pierre Berton

With the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We meet Soapy Smith, dictator of Skagway; Swiftwater Bill Gates, who bathed in champagne; Silent Sam Bonnifield, who lost and won back a hotel in a poker game; and... (more)

Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon

Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon

by John Hildebrand

John Hildebrand sets out in a canoe . . . to explore the great riverway of northwestern Canada and Alaska. . . . The geography is closely rendered and the characters especially sharply drawn. The country is filled with mad dropouts at river fish camps, good-hearted girls in the towns, sullen natives in tumbledown villages, cranky old-timers, terrible drunks and worse moralizers who live off the wild ... (more)

The Best of Robert Service

by Robert Service

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 verse tales of hard-bitten prospectors and sourdoughs make vivid, exciting reading, with such colorful characters as One-Eyed Mike, Dangerous Dan McGrew, Pious Pete, Blasphemous Bill-and, of course,... (more)

Highlander: White Silence

by Ginjer Buchanan

1889, and the San Francisco gold rush is in full swing. Seeking adventure and better prospects, MacLeod, member of an age-old race of Immortals, sets out for the Alaskan Territory with two friends. Hardship awaits them, their quest turns into a nightmare. The Immortals soon learn that indifferent nature can kill them again, and again and again

Strange Things Done: Murder in Yukon History (Mcgill-Queen's Native and Northern Series)

Strange Things Done: Murder in Yukon History (Mcgill-Queen's Native and Northern Series)

by Kenneth Coates

Yukon History has its fair share of unique characters and fascinating events. Contemporary Yukoners talk about the colourful 5 percent, quirky individuals who have come to Canada's North to find or reinvent themselves. Northern literature is full of accounts of mad trappers, jilted lovers, miners driven mad by cabin fever, sub-Arctic desperados and victims of racial tensions. In reality, the passions and angers... (more)

Land Of The Midnight Sun: A History Of The Yukon

Land Of The Midnight Sun: A History Of The Yukon

by Kenneth Coates

This completely revised edition of Land of the Midnight Sun, first published in 1988, is a comprehensive overview of Yukon history. This book places the Klondike Gold Rush within the broader sweep of the past, giving particular emphasis to the role of First Nations people and Aboriginal-white relations and to the lengthy struggle of Yukoners to find their place in the Canadian confederation. This broader story... (more)

Murder on the Yukon Quest: An Alaska Mystery

Murder on the Yukon Quest: An Alaska Mystery

by Sue Henry

The Yukon Quest has the reputation of being the toughest sled dog race in the world, taking teams and mushers through more than a thousand miles of North America's most remote and treacherous territory.Jessie Arnold is ready to meet the challenge. Jessie and her team of dogs are well prepared for the daring competition, but her one regret is that her longtime friend and lover, Alex Jensen, isn't there to see her... (more)

The Tooth of Time: A Maxie and Stretch Mystery

The Tooth of Time: A Maxie and Stretch Mystery

by Sue Henry

Zigzagging the country in a mini-Winnie means endless adventure-and Maxie McNabb is always up for something new. So she and her dog, Stretch, head for the heat of New Mexico, where Maxie plans to learn how to weave. But everything changes for the sleepy town when a local woman attempts suicide. A casualty of her husband's mid-life crisis, she was replaced by a newer, sexier model. And to top it off, a sleazy... (more)

Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush

Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush

by Lael Morgan

In the boomtowns of the Alaska-Yukon stampedes, where gold dust was common currency, the rarest commodity was an attractive woman, and her company could be costly. Author Lael Morgan takes you into the heart of the gold rush demimonde, that ""half world"" of prostitutes, dance hall girls, and entertainers who lived on the outskirts of polite society. Meet ""Dutch Kate"" Wilson, who pioneered many areas long before... (more)

Prelude to bonanza: The discovery and exploration of the YukonAllen A Wright

Prelude to bonanza: The discovery and exploration of the Yukon

by Allen A. Wright

The Lost Patrol: The Mounties' Yukon Tragedy

The Lost Patrol: The Mounties' Yukon Tragedy

by Dick North

On December 21, 1910, a routine four-man Royal North West Mounted Police patrol led by Inspector Francis J. Fitzgerald, set off from Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, by dogsled. Its destination: Dawson City, Yukon Territory, 475 miles away. Something, however, went terribly wrong. Using techniques similar to those of a skilled detective, author Dick North pieces the evidence together in an attempt to solve... (more)

Dead North (Alaska Mysteries (Paperback))

Dead North (Alaska Mysteries (Paperback))

by Sue Henry

With her cabin a pile of ashes and her lite in pieces, champion Alaskan "musher" Jessie Arnold has gratefully accepted a friend's proposal that she drive his motor home up from Idaho, along the Alaska Highway -- a breathtaking, two thousand-mile-long route winding past hot springs, glaciers, and ice-blue lakes. But the idyllic trip takes a dark turn when a teenage hitchhiker brings terror aboard. Frightened and... (more)

Strange Stories of Alaska and the Yukon

by Ed Ferrell

From the pages of early-day northern newspapers comes a startling collection of accounts of the extraordinary and the unexplained: Mammoths discovered frozen whole in the icy grip of a glacier. A tropical valley hidden deep in the wilderness. Sea serpents sighted off the Bering Sea Coast. A ghostly maiden's endless search for the young miner she loved. Lost mines containing unimaginable wealth in gold.

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by Jack London

by Elizabeth Hay

by Malvina G. Vogel, Jack London

by Alex Kershaw, Earle Labor, Jack London

by Sue Henry

by Jack London

by Bill Watterson

by Pierre Berton

by John Hildebrand

by Robert Service

by Ginjer Buchanan

by Kenneth Coates

by Kenneth Coates

by Sue Henry

by Sue Henry

by Lael Morgan

by Allen A. Wright

by Dick North

by Sue Henry

by Ed Ferrell