The Wolf Hunters, [Hardcover]

James Oliver Curwood (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2006

Cold winter lay deep in the Canadian wilderness. Over it the moon was rising, like a red pulsating ball, lighting up the vast white silence of the night in a shimmering glow. Not a sound broke the stillness of the desolation. It was too late for the life of day, too early for the nocturnal roamings and voices of the creatures of the night. Like the basin of a great amphitheater the frozen lake lay revealed in the light of the moon and a billion stars. Beyond it rose the spruce forest, black and forbidding. Along its nearer edges stood hushed walls of tamarack, bowed in the smothering clutch of snow and ice, shut in by impenetrable gloom. A huge white owl flitted out of this rim of blackness, then back again, and its first quavering hoot came softly, as though the mystic hour of silence had not yet passed for the night-folk. The snow of the day had ceased, hardly a breath of air stirred the ice-coated twigs of the trees. Yet it was bitter cold - so cold that a man, remaining motionless, would have frozen to death within an hour.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 188 pages
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society (August 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1421820560
• ISBN-13: 978-1421820569
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,540,531 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very great adventure for young or old, strikes of Jack London, September 11, 2010

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Sparse Grey Hackle (Boulder, Utah) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Wolf Hunters A Tale of Adventure in the Wilderness (Kindle Edition)

You can't read any of the books by Curwood and not think of London, it can't be helped, but this is one of Curwood's best stories and has a really fast pace compared to some of his other works.

I would honestly say it is a very fast moving, page turner of a North Woods adventure book, and I enjoyed it as much as the young adults I read it to.

If you ever dreamt of snowshoeing or canoeing into the vast wild lands of the north, building a cabin and living the forest life then this book will keep you riveted.

If you like tales of Alaska, the Yukon and the heyday of the gold boom days of the Great White North then you will enjoy the Wolf Hunters, I am sure of it.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful story, June 28, 2009

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Ultimate Ordnance (Burlington, Texas USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Wolf Hunters (Paperback)

If you like the works of Jack London, such as "Call of the Wild", you will like this book. Set in the unspoiled wilderness of Canada, it is a story of adventure and danger, friendship and mutual trust. Written in the early 1900's it is suitable for pre-teens and teenagers. It is a refreshing change from modern sexually explicit and violent entertainment.