Author: Pierre Berton. Published by The Boston Mills Press, Erin, ON., 1983, 1st Edition. (2005 3rd Printing) Printed in China. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with fold-out style covers. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 239 pages.
THE KLONDIKE QUEST, brings to life the panoramic drama of the great stampede for gold as seen by the ordinary gold-seeker. The photographs are beautifully reproduced and informatively and colorfully captioned.
This classic book is a truly great photographic essay of an historic event that made millionaires of an anonymous few but crushed thousands more in a hostile climate and unforgiving terrain anticipated by none.
We are nearing the 125th anniversary of the Klondike Gold Rush and no one has told the story as vividly as Yukon-born Pierre Berton. Canada's leading popular historian compiled over 200 rare period images from the more than 10,000 images in public archives and private collections. Depicting every aspect of what Berton called "one of the strangest mass movements in history," many of the compelling images were first published in this book.
