The rare jacket has chipping along the corner edges and spine edges. The front flap has been clipped at the top and bottom corners. Book is without marks or writings, pages are clean, and book is tight and sturdy. SIZE: 5 x 8 (approximately) PAGES: 126 pages. THE BOOK MAY POSSIBLY BE MISSING A FRONTISPIECE.
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THE SPELL OF THE YUKON AND OTHER VERSES. First Edition assumed with none stated. BARSE & HOPKINS, NY 1907. THE BOOK MAY POSSIBLY BE MISSING A FRONTISPIECE (there are two front endpapers and a half title page present).
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Wild Prose, Rough Living, Tender Heart,
This review is from: The Spell of the Yukon (Hardcover)
Robert Service wrote in the golden years of the Klondike -- of the rough and ready men, and women just as tough. No-one in Robert's world (real or imagined) minced words or had any self-consciousness about them. It was live and let live and sometimes kill or be killed. Reading his poems transports us back to that frozen place in nature when it was literally every man and every woman for him/herself, yet Robert conveys to us not only a sensitivity (in his poem extolling the simple light switch -- something quite novel in those times, especially in the Klondike), but the beauties he saw in the others -- gathered around the village's first "grammyphone", hearing the voice of "canned man" coming from it -- some savages taking to their canoes because it seems demonic, yet others equally savage, enraptured by this miracle of sound. Cold cabins, with hoarfrost clinging to the inside rafters -- unwashed masses in itchy long-johns struggling out of bed on an arctic day -- and the beauty of the lilies ("Unforgotten") living side by side with a trapper's two-timing woman getting her just desserts (over "a black fox skin") -- Robert Service touches the heart and soul of the rough and raw Klondike in the early 1900's, and shows us the soul's emotions and colors from inky black to pure gold.
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American Poetry Classic,
By Joseph Thompson (Madison, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Spell of the Yukon (Hardcover)
This is a classic. PERIOD! Do yourself a favor and buy this little book so that you can memorize "The Creamation of Sam McGee" if nothing else. You will always have a way to keep small children spellbound with this captivating verse. This, along with Service's other poems have a magical way of transforming us to the Yukon. You will feel as though you are there!
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I don't get poetry. For me, it tends to be hard to decipher and follow. Maybe that's why I tend not to read it. Robert Service is a pleasant surprise, and a "rediscovery" for me. I heard a friend's son try to recite "The Cremation of Sam McGee". His recitation was somewhat lacking in clarity, but the poem sounded "fun". I picked this book up in a bookstore (I bought a second copy from Amazon.com for a gift) and read "My Madonna". I laughed out loud and decided I NEEDED to own the book. Robert Service's images came through loud and clear. I thouroughly enjoyed reading his poems, and while I will admit he kinda beats the reader over the head with some of his images, there is no denying I understood what he was trying to portray. Stark. Forbidding. Unsettling. Chilling. Humerous. Pick the book up read it and find yourself being drawn into another century, and appreciating YOU don't have to live in that time or that place.
I saw a live performance of "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" in a saloon in Fairbanks, Alaska, several decades ago. I had forgotten how entertaining Robert Service could be. Rediscover or discover him, you'll be glad you did.
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The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lone Trail, New Year, Dangerous Dan, Lake Lebarge New!
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The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lone Trail, New Year, Dangerous Dan, Lake Lebarge New!
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- Call of the Wild by Rh Value Publishing in Front Matter
- The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service in Front Matter
- The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classic Reprints) by Jack London in Front Matter
- Shooting of Dan McGrew by Robert William Service in Front Matter
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