By James A. Michener
One of the most excellent novelists of the 20th century, James A. Michener captures a frenzied time while sane women and men risked their very lives in a forbidding Arctic land to win a stunning and elusive prize: Yukon gold.
In 1897, gold fever sweeps the area. The promise of untold riches lures millions of dreamers from all walks of existence on a dangerous trek towards fortune, failure—or dying. trip is an immersive account of the adventures of 4 English aristocrats and their Irish servant as they haul throughout merciless Canadian terrain towards the Klondike gold fields. vibrant and sweeping, that includes Michener's probing insights into the follies and grandeur of the human spirit, this can be the type of novel purely he may well write.
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Bonny halted in front of his wife with his boots just short of the water, and for a moment he seemed about to hit her. Then he hesitated, and his gaze fell away from hers, and he scowled across at Shandy. He fumbled a clasp knife out of his pocket—Shandy stepped back, snatching at his own—but when Bonny had unfolded his blade he pressed the point into the tip of his own left forefinger and flicked the blade outward, throwing a couple of drops of blood toward Shandy, and at the same time he began chanting a nonsensical multi-language rhyme.
Beth and I will be jumping ship at the first opportunity. htm (41 of 185) [2/14/2004 1:05:00 AM] ON STRANGER TIDES - Tim Powers would slip—that's soaked into her wood. I've got an uncle who needs hanging. He turned back toward the fires and started walking again, and it occurred to him that he wasn't far from the spot where he'd seen the man with the torn pockets and the bound-up jaw; and the memory of it made him walk a little faster, not because the man had looked threatening, but because of what Davies had said when Shandy told him about it.
Someone was yelling. "Cap'n Davies! " Davies dropped his bottle into the sand. "That's Venner," he said thoughtfully. "How did that move go? " Shandy shut his eyes and pictured it. "Right. " As the two men trudged back toward the fires, Davies pulled a pistol out of his belt. "If Venner plays me square I can handle him," he said quietly. "But if he doesn't, I want you to hang back with this and make sure no—" He stopped talking suddenly and gave a weary laugh. "Never mind. " He put the pistol away and lengthened his stride.