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 124
... arctic winter had meant . Lord Luton took it upon himself to make the sum- mary statements in the official log , and he came close to the truth when he wrote : As I look back on this splendid adventure , I see that we were a team of ...
... arctic winter had meant . Lord Luton took it upon himself to make the sum- mary statements in the official log , and he came close to the truth when he wrote : As I look back on this splendid adventure , I see that we were a team of ...
Page 175
... arctic terrors had engulfed him . The first minutes of the attack were horrifying , because no one unfamiliar with the arctic wastelands could imagine what an assault of this nature was like . Many lands are famous for their mosquitoes ...
... arctic terrors had engulfed him . The first minutes of the attack were horrifying , because no one unfamiliar with the arctic wastelands could imagine what an assault of this nature was like . Many lands are famous for their mosquitoes ...
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... Arctic , he got his way . But that was not the characteristic which enabled him to become one of the most effective ministers of war , for as Lloyd George remarked in one of his cabinet summaries : ' The Marquess of Deal could reach a ...
... Arctic , he got his way . But that was not the characteristic which enabled him to become one of the most effective ministers of war , for as Lloyd George remarked in one of his cabinet summaries : ' The Marquess of Deal could reach a ...
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