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    Children of the Frost
    Children of the Frost
    Children of the Frost
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    Children of the Frost

    By Jack London

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    Tales from the Klondike. Children of the Frost is a collection of short stories first published in 1902. Includes: - The League of the Old Men - In the Forests of the North - The Law of Life - Nam-Bok the Unveracious - The Master of Mystery - The Sunlanders - The Sickness of Lone Chief - Keesh, the Son of Keesh - The Death of Ligoun - Li Wan, the Fair

    IN THE
    FORESTS OF THE NORTH (Excerpt)

    A weary journey beyond the last scrub timber and
    straggling copses, into the heart of the Barrens where the niggard
    North is supposed to deny the Earth, are to be found great sweeps of
    forests and stretches of smiling land. But this the world is just
    beginning to know. The world's explorers have known it, from time to
    time, but hitherto they have never returned to tell the world.

    The Barrens—well, they are the Barrens, the bad
    lands of the Arctic, the deserts of the Circle, the bleak and bitter
    home of the musk-ox and the lean plains wolf. So Avery Van Brunt
    found them, treeless and cheerless, sparsely clothed with moss and
    lichens, and altogether uninviting. At least so he found them till he
    penetrated to the white blank spaces on the map, and came upon
    undreamed-of rich spruce forests and unrecorded Eskimo tribes. It had
    been his intention, (and his bid for fame), to break up these white
    blank spaces and diversify them with the black markings of
    mountain-chains, sinks and basins, and sinuous river courses; and it
    was with added delight that he came to speculate upon the
    possibilities of timber belts and native villages.

    Avery Van Brunt, or, in full distinction,
    Professor A. Van Brunt of the Geological Survey, was second in
    command of the expedition, and first in command of the sub-expedition
    which he had led on a side tour of some half a thousand miles up one
    of the branches of the Thelon and which he was now leading into one
    of his unrecorded villages. At his back plodded eight men, two of
    them French-Canadian voyageurs, and the remainder strapping
    Crees from Manitoba-way. He, alone, was full-blooded Saxon, and his
    blood was pounding fiercely through his veins to the traditions of
    his race. Clive and Hastings, Drake and Raleigh, Hengest and Horsa,
    walked with him. First of all men of his breed was he to enter this
    lone Northland village, and at the thought an exultancy came upon
    him, an exaltation, and his followers noted that his leg-weariness
    fell from him and that he insensibly quickened the pace.

    The village emptied itself, and a motley crowd
    trooped out to meet him, men in the forefront, with bows and spears
    clutched menacingly, and women and children faltering timidly in the
    rear. Van Brunt lifted his right arm and made the universal peace
    sign, a sign which all peoples know, and the villagers answered in
    peace. But to his chagrin, a skin-clad man ran forward and thrust out
    his hand with a familiar "Hello." He was a bearded man,
    with cheeks and brow bronzed to copper-brown, and in him Van Brunt
    knew his kind...

    About Jack London: 
    Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909). Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the e

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublishdrive
    Release dateAug 15, 2017
    ISBN9781387152490
    Children of the Frost
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    Jack London

    Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876, and was a prolific and successful writer until his death in 1916. During his lifetime he wrote novels, short stories and essays, and is best known for ‘The Call of the Wild’ and ‘White Fang’.

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