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.
