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The Son of the Wolf is a book written by Jack London. It is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great novel will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, The Son of the Wolf is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Jack London is highly recommended.The Son of the Wolf would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library.

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The Son of the Wolf is a book written by Jack London. It is widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time. This great novel will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, The Son of the Wolf is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Jack London is highly recommended.The Son of the Wolf would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library.

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Title: Property ownership in north Dawson City during the Klondike Gold Rush.(Report)
Author: Michael Brand
Publication: Northern Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2008
Publisher: Northern Review
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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 off.Alex has been called home to Idaho for a family emergency and Jessie begins the big race without her biggest booster.Well along the trail, Jessie is stunned to learn that a young novice racer she met at the start has been abducted and held for ransom.The girl's distraught father has been warned that no one but Jessie Arnold is to be told--especially not the police.Feeling isolated and alone, Jessie must decide what to do in the face of terrible odds.

It's the contest of a lifetime, yet as the other mushers push toward the finish line, Jessie forges ahead in a race all her own.Unable to ignore the plight of the missing girl, she's in a life and death battle against a desperate, unknown kidnapper who will stop at nothing.Speeding through the twists and turns of the icy, broken trails, Jessie has no time for fear.For somewhere in that vast and lonely landscape, a killer waits for a chance to unleash a murderous rage on anyone who dares to get in his way.Amazon.com Review
While most modern mysteries set in Alaska concentrate on the damage done tothe ecology or the strange personalities who take refuge in this arcticvastness, Sue Henry's books are more straightforward and usually morefun.In such stories as Deadfalland the AnthonyAward-winning Murder on theIditarod Trail, Henry follows in the sled and snowshoe tracks ofwriters like Jack London and Robert W. Service, who realized that Alaskawas the last great frontier of adventure. Her characters, like championsled-dog racer Jessie Arnold, are welcome throwbacks to a simpler periodwhen physical challenge was a healthy way to measure self-esteem.

Jessie is testing herself in the thousand-mile Yukon Quest race, whichfollows theold mail trail from Whitehorse to Fairbanks, when one of the other racersis kidnapped and held for ransom. The kidnappers insist that only Jessiecan deliver the money, and it has to be on the most dangerous leg of therace. Any attempt to involve the police will result in the victim's death.Of course, the worstblizzard of the year blows up just as the race gets to that point, and itgoes without saying that Jessie risks herself and her beloved dog team torecover the victim and capture the bad guys. Even if the thought ofsomebody shouting "Mush!" fills you with silent laughter, you're sure to begripped by Henry's ability to recreate the pleasures and perils of anarcane sport in a breathtaking landscape. --Dick Adler ... Read more

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Murder on the Yukon Quest
Very happy to find this book cause I had bought one and I didn't know they were a series. I couldn't find the rest of them so I looked on amazon.com and there it was and I'm really happy that I found it so I could read them all.I'm reading it now and enjoying it very much and I can't wait to buy more books and other thing.

murder to read
I've been painfully trying to read all of Sue Henry's novels, but I think this one has finally ended my quest.Murder on the Iditarod Trail and Sleeping Lady were very good novels, but in my opinion, the rest are just dull.Murder on the Yukon Quest tells of more hardships for Jessie Arnold.It is so implausible that so much "Bad Luck" could befall one woman and her dogs.Alex Jensen shows up briefly in bits of the novel just to give poor Jessie something else to worry about.Sorry Sue, I can't bear to read anymore.

Not Good
Sue Henry's mystery stories cover ground but her characters are so flat and lifeless that they could be used for ground cover.Even the dogs have more personality.

Good mushing, lousy mystery
While billed as "An Alaskan Mystery", this is really a book about life on the trail.Even as that, it fails to satisfy.The plot involves a kidnapping and murder on the Yukon Quest race.I believe it fails to live up to its billing as a mystery because the clues necessary to solve it aren't provided.The author basically tells you one of the culprits, you can sort of guess another by elimination, and the remainder require a TV "Perry Mason" like confession at the end (in his books, Gardner did things differently).This isn't the way a mystery should be written.The book is better when viewed as a mushing story but Ms. Henry's writing style reduces what should be an exciting adventure into painful tedium.After finishing YQ, I re-read Ludlum's "Bourne Identity" which I'd rate 5 stars.The differences in pacing, sentence structure, descriptions, ... were startling yet there's nothing about YQ that shouldn't support as exciting a novel as BI.Even if YQ provided the clues to be a good mystery, it would still be boring and that's its worst flaw.The only reason I gave it a second star was the author does a commendable job providing insight into the life of a dogsled racer.If you want a book that provides these insights, this might be an O.K. choice but if you want either a mystery or a well written novel, hunt elsewhere.

Topnotch thriller
Sue Henry is back to her best form in this sixth book of the Alaska Mystery Series.Jessie Arnold decides to forego the Iditerod in order to compete in the less famous but more rugged Yukon Quest.Partway through the race, one of the mushers is kidnapped and Jessie is asked to deliver ransom to the kidnappers while she is in the middle of the race.As always, Henry's descriptions make the reader feel the freezing temperatures and stark beauty of the Yukon and the Alaskan wilderness.She also describes well the feelings of the characters who are put in dangerous situations.Henry deals with Jessie's ambivalent feelings about her relationship with Alex Jensen in this book.This is the best in the series since the first novel, Murder on the Iditerod Trail. ... Read more

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House of Winslow Book 17- Late in 1896, Cassidy Winslow leaves his family's ranch in Wyoming to pursue his own fortunes but is hardly prepared for life in New York. He hates his job and tires of city life, but falls in love with a rich young woman who treats him like an interesting toy. She finally breaks his heart, and Cass heads for the West Coast with the determination that he'll do anything to get rich. When news comes to Seattle of the gold strike in the Klondike, all that holds Cass back is his debt of care to a man named Fletcher Stevens. The dying man's offer of money to fund Cassidy's trip to the gold fields of the Yukon is conditioned by a promise that Cass will take the man's daughter with him to share what gold they can find. Cass agrees, and when Stevens dies, he goes to tell the daughter the news. Serena Stevens had been placed in a convent by her father after her mother's death, and though she hates it there, she has little choice. When Cass comes! and tells her of her father's offer, she can't be talked out of going, and so the adventure begins. But the Klondike is a cold, hard world where death is only a bullet away! ... Read more

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Fall in love with Serena!
The book centers on Cassidy Winslow and Serena Stevens. After a Winslow family reunion of sorts Cassidy's Uncle Mark gets him in New York City. Cassidy seems to have the restless spirit like a lot of the Winslow men and soon leaves the big city for the west. He lives with a friend, Fletcher Stevens, who gets sick and passes away, but before he dies he has Cassidy promise that he will take care of his daughter who is in a convent.

When Cassidy arrives to pick up Serena he finds out that she's not the little girl he's expecting but a seventeen year old young lady. He gives her the option to stay at the convent or to come with him and she chooses to go. So Serena, Cassidy, and his two cousins set out for the gold fields of the Yukon.

I loved this addition to the House of Winslow series. You soon love Serena's faith and how much she relies on it, especially in the depths of the Yukon. Serena loves and cares openly, while Cassidy struggles with himself.

very good book
i enjoyed this book enormously.the main charachter, cass has promised to care for the daughter of a man who had befriended him.this friend gave him the money to go to the yukon, with the promise he would take care of her.the daughter, serena, insisted cass take her with him.cass's one desire is to strike it rich, because a girl he thought he loved, turned him away because he was not of her social status.while hunting for gold, he starts to have feelings for serena.while serena cares for him deeply she starts to see the mounted policeman, sam steele.steele falls in love with her.serena cares for him, but really loves cass.
the young couple have a series of adventures including serena learning how to drive dogs and sled.she saves his life when he falls through the ice, and he gets shot, but is not hurt because of a sack of gold dust in his pocket. sam is very graceful about letting serena go.
i found the gentleness of the main charachters very nice.

Difficult to finish
I had a difficult time finishing this novel.The dialog was especially problematic -- everybody said exactly what he or she wanted to say (no subtext; no subtlety).I also found many of the characters to be clichéd (note especially the Mounted Police officer Steele).The story also became quite preachy at times.

I wouldn't recommend this series.

Very good!
This book shows a very accurate description of the Klondike gold rush, it's amazing how well it's done.Cass and Serena, also accompanied by Cass's cousins Aaron and Jubal Winslow, set out together at the start, but after Jubal is killed in an avalanche after he pushes Aaron out of the way, Aaron is promptly discouraged and returns home (see Book #18 to see what happens to Aaron after that).It's great that they reintroduced Joe Winslow, their grandfather Sky's oldest son, introduced in Book #7, and virtually forgotten since then.Parts of the story tend to drag out, but everything comes right in the end, as usually happens in all "House of Winslow" books. ... Read more

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Dolf Morgette is determined to head as far west as a man can go - to the wilds of Alaska to join the great gold rush. He's charged with the responsibility of protecting Jack Quillen, the only man alive who can locate the vast goldfields of Lost Sky Pilot Fork. ... Read more

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THE REEL MCCOY/JUST LIKE THEM OLD MOOM PICHERS
When the author of this book came to Alaska first, fifty-seven years ago, only some fifty-one years before that the Gold Rush days were in their infancy. His father had joined the rush to Nome as a boy, only forty-six years before. The point of this is that today we can still find a lot of Alaskan pioneers around from forty or fifty years ago and talk to them, and get the flavor of things the way they were right after WWII in Alaska - not much different from the Gold Rush Days as a matter of fact. Thus when Glenn Boyer was first in Alaska he found lots of old timers around from whom to get the flavor and feel of things and he obviously did it and can put it across to readers. You can smell, feel and visualize "how it was." But he himself obviously experienced a time much different than today's Alaska and a lot more like the historical period he covers so realistically here. How many of you remember Cap Lathrop or Archie Ferguson from first hand contact?

This is the second book in a series about Dolf Morgette, a legendary lawman in the tradition of Wyatt Earp. He comes to Alaska on a manhunt for a killer who shot his good friend, Harvey Parrent, having mistaken Harvey for Dolf himself. He is only partially successful and the manhunt continues in the next volume MORGETTE ON THE BARBARY COAST.

Oddly, reviewers (some of them women) haven't picked up on the fact that Boyer's Morgette series is full of strong women doing things as well or better than men. Morever, many of them, such as Dolf's wife, Margaret are minorities. Although Boyer never makes clear her exact tribe, she is obviously a Nez Perce, indicated by the exploits of her father, Chief Henry, a Chief Joseph look alike. Dolf and Margaret adopt the native daughter of their Indian nurse, who has died of tuberculosis, as so many of them did.

Margaret bears their son, Henry, in Alaska and almost dies in childbirth, saved by the timely visit of Dolf's old friend, Doc Hennessey, who performs a Cesarean delivery. Following a winter in the vicinity of Dyea, they push inland and travel down the Yukon in boats they build themselves, just as the other spampeders did, only they are ahead of the Dawson Rush and go in to the Sky Pilot Diggin's, an obvious parallel to Preacher Creek, and the town that they found parallels Circle City.

They are dogged by the usual bunch of bad guys who are attempting to reach the diggin's ahead of them, apprised of the secret that Jack Quillen, a sourdough is the only one who knows the exact location. Behind the bad guys is one faction of early developers, and behind Dolf and Quillen are another, like the AC Co. and N.A.T.T. who were to pioneer Alaska. John Hedley, local strong man of Dolf's faction is derived from pioneer John Healy (for whom Healy, Alaska is named) and a rare old scoundrel. For those of you who like historical tie-ins, read about Healy's Montana and Canada career in such books as Whoop-up Country.

The story starts with efforts to get rid of Dolf, starting on the steamer north, where someone tries to murder him, continue in Dyea, and follow him down the Yukon, where they cut loose a boat in which he's nursing a severely strained leg, just above Miles Canyon. Here he is rescued by his wife Margaret's heroic swim to the boat to save both Dolf and their baby, Henry.

These bad guys are so mean they don't even clean their fingernails. Treat yourself to some real fun in the tradition of old time Western writers who had been there and wrote for Western Story Magazine in the hey day of the pulps and graduated into "Satevepost" and "Colliers" and quality Westerns where even the bad guys knew the difference between right and wrong. (They just didn't give a damn - something like Pete Rose.) But, as they should, they get theirs in the end, except - as I said - the worst guy of all escapes, whom Dolf has to track back to the Barbary Coast in San Francisco. (Natch! To keep the series going. And it's a fun series full of rainy afternoon books of the kind you are sorry to see end.)

The author's days in Alaska dated from Jan. 1947 through July 1949, when he flew with an outfit locating radar sites that later became the DEW LINE, and sometimes walked with the ground crews, due to a shortage of men. Due to its extracurricular activities the organization was known as the 6th Rod and Gun. (Whose exploits equalled those of the 10th Rescue Squadron, which was known as the 10th Hunting and Fishing in the days when Flying Legend, Papa Berndt Balchen was at its helm.) As Boyer says: "I must have slogged up every damn mountain in Alaska" - and quickly adds: "I made that up, but climbed a lot of them, including Anvil, at Nome, because I missed the `cat' train; worse yet I did it on snow shoes with a hangover." Zounds! A Hangover? In Alaska? Yes, kiddies. Alaska is sort of well-known for hootch, which is where the name was coined. (From Hoochinoo.)

I note that someone from Fairbanks, Alaska rated this book one star. I wonder if he's ever been out of town.

THE REEL MCCOY/JUST LIKE THEM OLD MOOM PICHERS
When the author of this book came to Alaska first, fifty-seven years ago, only some fifty-one years before that the Gold Rush days were in their infancy. His father had joined the rush to Nome as a boy, only forty-six years before. The point of this is that today we can still find a lot of Alaskan pioneers around from forty or fifty years ago and talk to them, and get the flavor of things the way they were right after WWII in Alaska - not much different from the Gold Rush Days as a matter of fact. Thus when Glenn Boyer was first in Alaska he found lots of old timers around from whom to get the flavor and feel of things and he obviously did it and can put it across to readers. You can smell, feel and visualize "how it was." But he himself obviously experienced a time much different than today's Alaska and a lot more like the historical period he covers so realistically here. How many of you remember Cap Lathrop or Archie Ferguson from first hand contact?

This is the second book in a series about Dolf Morgette, a legendary lawman in the tradition of Wyatt Earp. He comes to Alaska on a manhunt for a killer who shot his good friend, Harvey Parrent, having mistaken Harvey for Dolf himself. He is only partially successful and the manhunt continues in the next volume MORGETTE ON THE BARBARY COAST.

Oddly, reviewers (some of them women) haven't picked up on the fact that Boyer's Morgette series is full of strong women doing things as well or better than men. Morever, many of them, such as Dolf's wife, Margaret are minorities. Although Boyer never makes clear her exact tribe, she is obviously a Nez Perce, indicated by the exploits of her father, Chief Henry, a Chief Joseph look alike. Dolf and Margaret adopt the native daughter of their Indian nurse, who has died of tuberculosis, as so many of them did.

Margaret bears their son, Henry, in Alaska and almost dies in childbirth, saved by the timely visit of Dolf's old friend, Doc Hennessey, who performs a Cesarean delivery. Following a winter in the vicinity of Dyea, they push inland and travel down the Yukon in boats they build themselves, just as the other spampeders did, only they are ahead of the Dawson Rush and go in to the Sky Pilot Diggin's, an obvious parallel to Preacher Creek, and the town that they found parallels Circle City.

They are dogged by the usual bunch of bad guys who are attempting to reach the diggin's ahead of them, apprised of the secret that Jack Quillen, a sourdough is the only one who knows the exact location. Behind the bad guys is one faction of early developers, and behind Dolf and Quillen are another, like the AC Co. and N.A.T.T. who were to pioneer Alaska. John Hedley, local strong man of Dolf's faction is derived from pioneer John Healy (for whom Healy, Alaska is named) and a rare old scoundrel. For those of you who like historical tie-ins, read about Healy's Montana and Canada career in such books as Whoop-up Country.

The story starts with efforts to get rid of Dolf, starting on the steamer north, where someone tries to murder him, continue in Dyea, and follow him down the Yukon, where they cut loose a boat in which he's nursing a severely strained leg, just above Miles Canyon. Here he is rescued by is wife Margaret's heroic swim to the boat to save both Dolf and their baby, Henry.

These bad guys are so mean they don't even clean their fingernails. Treat yourself to some real fun in the tradition of old time Western writers who had been there and wrote for Western Story Magazine in the hey day of the pulps and graduated into "Satevepost" and "Colliers" and quality Westerns where even the bad guys knew the difference between right and wrong. (They just didn't give a damn - something like Pete Rose.) But, as they should, they get theirs in the end, except - as I said - the worst guy of all escapes, whom Dolf has to track back to the Barbary Coast in San Francisco. (Natch! To keep the series going. And it's a fun series full of rainy afternoon books of the kind you are sorry to see end.)

The author's days in Alaska dated from Jan. 1947 through July 1949, when he flew with an outfit locating radar sites that later became the DEW LINE, and sometimes walked with the ground crews, due to a shortage of men. Due to its extracurricular activities the organization was known as the 6th Rod and Gun. (Whose exploits equalled those of the 10th Rescue Squadron, which was known as the 10th Hunting and Fishing in the days when Flying Legend, Papa Berndt Balchen was at its helm.) As Boyer says: "I must have slogged up every damn mountain in Alaska" - and quickly adds: "I made that up, but climbed a lot of them, including Anvil, at Nome, because I missed the `cat' train; worse yet I did it on snow shoes with a hangover." Zounds! A Hangover? In Alaska? Yes, kiddies. Alaska is sort of well-known for hootch, which is where the name was coined. (From Hoochinoo.)

I note that someone from Fairbanks, Alaska rated this book one star. I wonder if he's ever been out of town.

Old fashioned Western with Alaskan favor.
A short Western novel with an Alaskan favor. He trys to capture the old Alaskan gold rush days to include them in the development of Morgette. You know the storyline: the good guy usually wins in the end. The fun part is reading to get there. ... Read more

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In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off from Dawson, Yukon Territory, onetime site of the Klondike gold rush, to trace the majestic Yukon River. His journey downriver to Circle City, Alaska, is an expedition into the history of the river and its land, and a record of the inimitable and little known inhabitantsof the region. With the distinct perspective of an insider, A Land Gone Lonesome gives us an intelligent, rhapsodic--and ultimately, probably the last--portrait of the Yukon and its authentic inhabitants. ... Read more

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"a three-pound bolus of honest chow...."
Overall a book that doesnt draw you in like other writers do, McPhee who's been mentioned in other reviews, Nick Jans, others.I was intrigued and sometimes disturbed by parenthetical passages.Take this bizarre one for example:

"To a mammoth bowl of Zatarain's New Orleans Style Red Beans and Rice I add a couple of juicy moose links, nicely blackened over the fire, then cut up and mixed into the pot.For several days my dinners will center on sausage.This is partly due to the obvious ascendency of this food, but also because, without refriegeration, one eats the fresh meat first until it is gone.For dessert, boiled coffee and a couple trick-or-treat sized chocolate bars ...........As I duck into the dry, snug tent, I find that tonight I feel sorry for all the salad people.It doesn't seem fair.Me with a three-pound bolus of honest chow radiating well-being within me. They, making do with a meal of leaves.We must do something nice for the salad people, I resolve, next chance we get."

Huh?"3 pounds of beans, rice, and moose sausage"?"salad people"?I'm betting that more than 'well-being' was radiating from him before the night was over.Good luck with that colon!Yikes.

A Land Gon Lonesome
A land gone lonesome the title was what attracted my attention in the first place. I also saw a review of the book on tv on the Alaska channel.

Somewhat of an ordeal to traverse
The Yukon River, 2300 miles long, was the last major river system in North America to be discovered, explored, and settled by non-Natives.Yet around 1900, there were tens of thousands of "outsiders" living and traveling along its course and in its basin, the vast majority attracted there by the lure of gold.Even after the ore played out, the Yukon River continued to attract settlers, trappers, fishermen, and others as a sort of last frontier.Within Alaska, that all changed around 1980 with the creation of the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, and the attendant transfer of administrative responsibility to the National Park Service.Contrary to rather clear legislative intent, the Park Service has managed the Preserve so as to evict virtually all residents from the Preserve, such that, in the words of Dan O'Neill's book title, the Yukon is now "a land gone lonesome."

I bought A LAND GONE LONESOME in large part based on a back cover blurb likening it to John Graves's "Goodbye to a River" and John McPhee's "Coming into the Country."I was misled.The book is centered around a trip by the author down the Yukon in a 19-foot canoe with outboard motor from Dawson, Yukon Territory, to Circle City, Alaska, through the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve.The book begins promisingly enough, with some entertaining tales of sourdoughs from the gold-rush era and assorted contemporary crackpots and characters.But once O'Neill reaches Alaska, the book morphs into a kind of screed against Park Service policies in the Preserve, and never really emerges.To the extent there remains any aspect of a travelogue, it consists principally of a series of river cabins (dozens of them) in various stages of ruin and decay.There is plenty of local history, but it is provincial in the extreme, such that I was put in mind of the "Images of America" series of books, albeit without photographs.O'Neill's writing is decent, and sometimes witty, but for someone who does not already have an abiding and fervid interest in the Yukon River, A LAND GONE LONESOME is somewhat of an ordeal to traverse.It certainly is inferior to the cited works of both Graves and McPhee.

O'neill, a very readable master historian
In A Land Gone Lonesome Dan O'Neill floats the Yukon River area visited by John McPhee over 30 years earlier. The differences over time are striking as are the differences in the authors. While McPhee was a perceptive visitor spinning a great tale, O'Neill is a long time resident, and his narration reveals a deep love of the landcoupled with a keen eye towards historical perspective. He discusses in detail the effects of the National Park Service's administration,or perhaps mis-administration.If you liked McPhee, you'll love O'Neill. O'Neill has a comfortable free-flowing style appropriate for a tale about Alaska's greatest river. If you are into rural lifestyles, Alaska history, the Yukon River, or Alaska wilderness - this is a must read.

A wealth of Knowledge
This book is so visual.My OH my...reading this book, with my Alaska ATLAS in hand, I was transported to the Yukon - Charley region almost as if I were there!!!!!!!!!
Then I went ontoGoogle Earth and zeroing in on places like Circle and Eagle was unreal...Thank you Dan, for a terrific, fantastic, ESCAPE from the daily grind.The only thing better...to buy a van, load up a boat, and driver to Circle, Alaska and shove off!!!!!!!!! ... Read more

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The best Comic strip EVER!
If Bill Watterson would come out of retirement and begin writing Calvin & Hobbes once again, I would buy every book that would be published.I have 2 boys, age 12 and 8.It's really difficult to find books that boys will read.I've found some stories written as spin-offs from popular movies and have had good luck with getting my kids to read these books.However, Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes has been my biggest success and Yukon Ho is one of the top collections of strips, putting together some of the funniest antics of Calvin and his imagination ever written.My 12 year old would not put it down until he had read it through.My 8 year old, likewise, reads until I make him turn his flashlight out.When they finish reading, they read it again and we all laugh everytime we read them!My husband & I agree with the kids, this is the best comic strip ever written.

A Classic for All Ages
My entire family, including my three children, love these books.They never fail to entertain.True classics in the spirit of Peanuts, only better!

Becomes more significant after repeated readings
"Yukon Ho!", the third installment of Calvin and Hobbes series, is a pleasure to read. We see more of Calvin and Hobbes's fantasy adventures and philsophical discussions (both of which are highly clever and realistic). The time travel, the magic carpet ride, the journey to the Yukon, the water baloon fight with Susie, the camping trip that's full of rain; the list never stops. Bill Watterson has done a brilliant job with the overall concept of a kid and his VERY vivid imagination. This is one of my two favorite comics (the other one being "Garfield").

Calvin is a hero to every person who was an imaginative child
Calvin is the hero of all children with wildly vivid imaginations. He has great fun with his stuffed tiger Hobbes, going on numerous great adventures, including an attempted trip to the Yukon. Calvin is fairly typical in the sense that such children tend to drive their parents and teachers crazy, yet when they learn to temper and channel their imagination, they often end up doing spectacularly creative things as adults.
Since I was one of those imaginative children who spent all of my time either reading or playing pretend scenarios in the kitchen, I can certainly relate to this inventive misfit. He is hilarious.

I love everything Calvin and Hobbes...
I love Calvin and Hobbes.Period.The philosophy, the juvenile humor, the deep quiet truths, seeing the world through the eyes of a 6 year old.Any Calvin and Hobbes book gets 5 stars from me. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Huslia Airport, Edward G. Pitka Sr. Airport, Circle City Airport, Minchumina Airport, Koyukuk Airport, Fort Yukon Airport, Bettles Airport, Ralph M. Calhoun Memorial Airport, Holy Cross Airport, Nenana Municipal Airport, Mcgrath Airport, Rampart Airport, Arctic Village Airport, Central Airport, Stevens Village Airport, Kaltag Airport, Shageluk Airport, Nulato Airport, Venetie Airport, Circle Hot Springs Airport, Chalkyitsik Airport, Grayling Airport, Anvik Airport, Prospect Creek Airport, Beaver Airport, Manley Hot Springs Airport, Ruby Airport, Minto Airport. Excerpt:Anvik Airport Anvik Airport (IATA : ANV , ICAO : PANV , FAA LID : ANV ) is a public airport located one mile (2 km) southeast of the central business district of Anvik , a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska of the U.S. state of Alaska . It is owned by the state. Facilities Anvik Airport has one runway (17/35) with a gravel surface measuring 2,960 x 75 ft. (902 x 23 m). Airlines and non-stop destinations References (URLs online) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Arctic Village Airport Arctic Village Airport (IATA : ARC , ICAO : PARC , FAA LID : ARC ) is a public use airport located one nautical mile (1.8 km ) southwest of the central business district of Arctic Village , a Native American village in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska . It is owned by the Venetie Tribal Government. Facilities and aircraft Arctic Village Airport has one runway designated 2/20 with a gravel surface measuring 4,500 by 75 feet (1,372 x 23 m). For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 1,627 aircraft operations, an average of 135 per month: 89 % air taxi and 11 % general aviation . textbf... ... Read more

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This is the true story of Jack London's personal odyssey from San Francisco to the Arctic Circle, across the breadth of Alaska, and home again. It is the thrilling story of one man's rush for riches and desire to escape the lifelong poverty he had always known. For Jack London, this challenging journey of more than 10,000 miles changed his life . . . and the course of American literature. Dodging avalanches, braving frozen lakes, navigating dangerous whitewater rapids, and surviving a deadly-cold Klondike winter, London overcame scurvy, hardships, and dire disappointments to encounter heroism, human kindness, and majestic landscapes. This definitive account — the most complete and most definitive to date — details Jack's adventurous quest for gold, and includes maps, historic photographs, some never before published. ... Read more

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Describes the lure of gold that drew both men and women west and discusses how they lived, the difficulties they faced, the impact of the gold rush on Native Americans, and more. ... Read more

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Great book
A very nice overview of the subject matter. I am intrigued by this period in history, and this book help clarify a lot of my questions. ... Read more

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The Congregational Church of Bent Creek, Vermont, badly needed funds, so decided to send one of their boys up to the Klondike gold fields. But it was Callie Fisk who won the chance to go, and her father was against the idea. ... Read more

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She's young, he's old, they are NOT a good match...
Basic, read in an hour romance, Harlequin-type.If you are looking for one of Delinsky's rich, interesting ones ... keep on scrolling. Didn't like these characters any better at the end than I did at the beginning.

Love's Letting Go
This was a really good book of adventure and personal growth for Rory the heroine, but more importantly it was a story of love that knew how to draw back....let go....let grow...and returning to claim itself unselfishly.

Eric allowed Rory to first find herself and reach her goals of personal growth before he claimed the love he knew they both could nurture together.

From the frustrating misadventures through the dangers and heartbreaks...this couple keeps you from wanting to put down the book....and keeps you praying for their happiness.

Wonderful love story of courage, adventure and unselfish sacrifices. ... Read more