Klondike Mike (Mike Mahoney)
Author: Merrill Denison
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Published: 1945
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Klondike Mike
Author: Merrill Denison
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2019-01-13
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 1789123038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKlondike Mike: An Alaskan Odyssey is Merrill Denison’s 1943 biography of Mike Ambrose Mahoney, a Canadian who travelled to the North in 1897 in search of gold and adventure. In Klondike Mike—a popular “Book of the Month Club” choice—Denison uses imagined omnipotent disclosures of his subject’s thoughts to enrich his writing with a sense of immediacy. In episodic scenes, readers accompany Mahoney through mishaps and adversity: Mahoney hauling a piano on his back up the Chilkoot Pass so that the Sunny Samson Sisters Sextette can get to Dawson to make their fortunes entertaining prospectors; or Mahoney setting a record with his team of dogs as they race across the frozen North from Dawson to Skagway in only fourteen days. The dramatic tension inherent in each of these adventures provides Klondike Mike with a surging narrative pulse and pace—a clever evocation of gold rush fever. In these ways, Klondike Mike demonstrates that Denison should be considered an early innovator of the genre now known as creative non-fiction. Richly illustrated throughout.
Klondike Mike
Author: Merrill Denison
Publisher:
Published: 2023-05-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781088137963
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKlondike Mike, first published in 1943, recounts the life of the legendary Alaskan folk hero Michael Ambrose Mahoney (1878-1951). Mahoney, famous for his extraordinary strength, was successful in his search for gold, and author Jack London would base two of his most famous novels - Call of the Wild and White Fang - in part, on the adventures of the real life Klondike Mike. This Pathfinder Book edition illustrated with 24 pages of maps and photos.
Great White Hopes
Author: Graeme Kent
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2005-03-17
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0752496158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Sydney, Australia, in 1908 the talented black fighter Jack Johnson won the heavyweight championship of the world from the Canadian Tommy Burns. There was an immediate storm of protest. It was predicted that his reign would lead to civic unrest and race riots. This is the story of sport, racism, corruption and larger-than-life characters.
The Riel Problem
Author: Albert Braz
Publisher: University of Alberta
Published: 2024-04
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1772127337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlbert Braz examines how Louis Riel has been commemorated since 1967, charting his transformation from traitor to Canadian hero.
Book Review Digest
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 1384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, drawn from coverage of 109 publications. Book Review Digest provides citations to and excerpts of reviews of current juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. Reviews of books on science for the general reader, however, are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. - Publisher.
Writing the Northland
Author: Barbara Stefanie Giehmann
Publisher: Königshausen & Neumann
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 3826044592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Klondike Fever: The Life And Death Of The Last Great Gold Rush
Author: Pierre Berton
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2015-11-06
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1786256738
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Absolutely first-rate.”—The New Yorker This thrilling story is at once first-rate history and first-rate entertainment. Incredible events occurred in North America after a decrepit steamboat docked at Seattle in 1897 containing two tons of pure gold. So frenzied was the clash for gold and so scant was information about conditions in the Klondike that the rush for riches became a kind of fabulous madness. The entire tale—of which Pierre Berton’s account is the definitive telling—has an epic ring (legends were lived and fortunes were won) as much because of its splendid folly as because of its color and motion. “The definitive account of an affair as wildly improbable as any in North American history.”—Saturday Review “A lively saga of the great gold rush. It is the most complete and most authentic on the subject in English.”—The New York Times Book Review
