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Klondike Quest, The A Photographic Essay 1897-1899 by Pierre Berton Soft Cover
Klondike Quest, The A Photographic Essay 1897-1899 by Pierre Berton
Soft Cover Does not lay completely flat
240 pages
Copyright 2005
CONTENTS
1: Gold Fever7
2: The Shimmering Sands 24
3: The Trail of Dead Horses40
4: Up the Golden Stairs60
5: The Armada96
6: The Shuffling Throng122
7: The Creeks154
8: City of Gold186
9: All That Glitters236
INTRODUCTION
THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH was perhaps the most photographed event in North America during the nineteenth century. More than ten thousand pictures are available in public archives and private collections, depicting every aspect of what Pierre Berton has called "one of the strangest mass movements in history."
For this book, Berton has selected some two hundred photographs, most of them unfamiliar, many never published. Here, for the first time, is the panoramic drama of the great stampede seen from the point of view of the ordinary gold seeker.
Berton first captured the full magnitude and excitement of the last of the great gold rushes in his classic book Klondike, published in 1958. This book won him the second of his three Governor General's Awards for non-fiction. A record bestseller, Klondike was reissued in 1972 with much new material and a study of American and Canadian frontier styles and myths.
Critics throughout the English-speaking world raved. "A wonderfully lively history," said Orville Prescott of The New York Times. In London The Observer called it "an epic account ... fascinating and exciting." Back in Canada, The Globe and Mail proclaimed it "a fascinating book of permanent value."
The Klondike Quest is the perfect companion volume to Berton's Klondike, offering a new point of view, additional information, and the best collection of gold rush photographs ever presented.
ON THE BACK COVER
THE KLONDIKE QUEST
IN MANY WAYS the great quest was an approximation of life itself, for in its several stages it mirrored the naivitof childhood, the enthusiasm of youth, the disillusionment of middle age, and the wisdom of maturity. Those who survived were made wise: they had taken their own measure and now understood their failings as well as their strengths. At last they realized that the Klondike experience was as much a quest for self as it was for gold.
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