JourneyIn an absorbing historical novel, five men who brave the frozen Canadian wilderness during the Klondike gold rush of 1897, risking everything to fulfill their dreams. A highly readable drama filled with the blend of fact and fiction that is Michener's trademark.((Random House--Fiction-Historical) From the Hardcover edition. |
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Page 141
... allowed to move on into the Peel , there had to be a feast and dancing and the chanting of good - luck songs . It was a greeting of such amiability , so different from the austerity of the Blackfoot ceremonial at Ed- monton , that Luton ...
... allowed to move on into the Peel , there had to be a feast and dancing and the chanting of good - luck songs . It was a greeting of such amiability , so different from the austerity of the Blackfoot ceremonial at Ed- monton , that Luton ...
Page 168
... allowed the blood to trickle down their chins , and they could almost feel the lifesaving juices running into their own livers and down the veins of their legs , which only a few minutes before had been doomed . But Fogarty , who had ...
... allowed the blood to trickle down their chins , and they could almost feel the lifesaving juices running into their own livers and down the veins of their legs , which only a few minutes before had been doomed . But Fogarty , who had ...
Page 228
... allowed to travel to many of her Asian frontiers , but not , alas , into Siberia itself . But if books can provide the portrait of a land , and as a writer I had to think so , I had acquired a powerful understanding of and admiration ...
... allowed to travel to many of her Asian frontiers , but not , alas , into Siberia itself . But if books can provide the portrait of a land , and as a writer I had to think so , I had acquired a powerful understanding of and admiration ...
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