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 48
... carry him to the Klondike . Basically , it was an agricultural tractor , heavily modified for the gold rush , and on the flat fields of Kansas it might have been a sensation , for it consisted of a sturdy iron - strapped boiler which ...
... carry him to the Klondike . Basically , it was an agricultural tractor , heavily modified for the gold rush , and on the flat fields of Kansas it might have been a sensation , for it consisted of a sturdy iron - strapped boiler which ...
Page 83
... carrying you always closer to the goal . ' But the goal to which it was speeding them was the river's goal , the arctic ... carried them along , and decision was postponed . The apt simile for their curious behavior came , as might have ...
... carrying you always closer to the goal . ' But the goal to which it was speeding them was the river's goal , the arctic ... carried them along , and decision was postponed . The apt simile for their curious behavior came , as might have ...
Page 180
... carried with them when traveling the tundra , and after assuring the strangers that they were going to make a kind of stew in an iron pot they carried , they went to the shore of the very lake that Luton had refused to drink from ...
... carried with them when traveling the tundra , and after assuring the strangers that they were going to make a kind of stew in an iron pot they carried , they went to the shore of the very lake that Luton had refused to drink from ...
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