The Valley of Silent Men - Couverture souple

Curwood, James Oliver

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1410102718 ISBN 13 : 9781410102713

Editeur : Fredonia Books (NL), 2003

Synopsis

When he thought he was dying, Sergeant Kent, the best man-trapper in the Royal Mounted, told a story that branded him as a murderer and set another man free. But the doctor's diagnosis was wrong; death by hanging grinned in the trooper's face. Love of life and a beautiful mystery girl, who had laughed at him and called him a liar, now made him a fugitive - a hunter becomes the hunted. With him, down those fabled rivers flowing north to the frozen Arctic, sped the girl, whose own secret winds like a thread of wild magic to the hidden Valley of Silent Men. James Oliver Curwood lived most of his life in Owosso, Michigan, where he was born on June 12, 1878. His first novel was The Courage of Captain Plum (1908) and he published one or two novels each year thereafter, until his death on August 13, 1927. Owosso residents honor his name to this day, and Curwood Castle (built in 1922) is the town's main tourist attraction. During the 1920s Curwood became one of America's best selling and most highly paid authors. This was the decade of his lasting classics The Valley of Silent Men (1920) and The Flaming Forest (1921). He and his wife Ethel were outdoors fanatics and active conservationists.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North. It is still Iskwatam - the "door" which opens to the lower reaches of the Athabasca, the Slave, and the Mackenzie. It is somewhat difficult to find on the map, yet it is there, because its history is written in more than a hundred and forty years of romance and tragedy and adventure in the lives of men, and is not easily forgotten. Over the old trail it was about a hundred and fifty miles north of Edmonton. The railroad has brought it nearer to that base of civilization, but beyond it the wilderness still howls as it has howled for a thousand years, and the waters of a continent flow north and into the Arctic Ocean. It is possible that the beautiful dream of the real-estate dealers may come true, for the most avid of all the sportsmen of the earth, the money-hunters, have come up on the bumpy railroad that sometimes lights its sleeping cars with lanterns, and with them have come typewriters, and stenographers, and the art of printing advertisements, and the Golden Rule of those who sell handfuls of earth to hopeful purchasers thousands of miles away - "Do others as they would do you." And with it, too, has come the legitimate business of barter and trade, with eyes on all that treasure of the North which lies between the Grand Rapids of the Athabasca and the edge of the polar sea.

Biographie de l'auteur

About The Author American author James Oliver Curwood (1878 –1927) wrote action-adventure novels and his bestsellers were among the most read books in America in the 1900s. More than a dozen Hollywood films have been based on his frontier novels including “The Bear.” Curwood was both a writer and conservationist. His books ranked among Publisher's Weekly top-ten best sellers in the United States in the early 1920s. At the time of his death, he was the highest paid (per word) author in the world. His writing studio, Curwood Castle, is now a museum in Owosso, Michigan. James Oliver Curwood’s books Include: 1. The Courage of Captain Plum -1908 2. The Wolf Hunters – 1908 3. The Gold Hunters – 1909 4. The Danger Trail – 1910 5. The Honor of the Big Snows –1911 6. Steele of the Royal Mounted –1911 7. The Flower of the North –1912 8. Isobel: A Romance of the Northern Trail or Icebound Hearts –1913 9. God's Country and the Woman –1915 10. The Hunted Woman –1916 11. The Grizzly King –1916 12. The Courage of Marge O'Doone –1918 13. Nomads of the North – 1919 14. The River's End – 1919 15. Back to God's Country and Other Stories –1920 16. The Valley of Silent Men – 1920 17. God's Country – The Trail to Happiness –1921 18. The Golden Snare –1921 19. The Flaming Forest –1921 20. The Country Beyond – 1922

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fredonia Books (NL)
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1410102718
• ISBN 13: 9781410102713
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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