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The Alaskan is a vigorous northern romance in which the immensities of Alaska become both setting and moral force. Curwood stages adventure, intrigue, and love against glaciers, forests, and frontier settlements, contrasting human greed with the austere grandeur of the wilderness. Written in the tradition of early twentieth-century adventure fiction associated with Jack London and Rex Beach, the novel combines melodramatic plotting with lyrical natural description and an unmistakable conservationist impulse. James Oliver Curwood, an American journalist, novelist, and outdoorsman, repeatedly drew upon his travels in Alaska and the Canadian Northwest to fashion popular tales of the North. His familiarity with hunting camps, remote rivers, and frontier society gave his fiction an authority prized by contemporary readers. Yet Curwood's later work also reflects a growing unease with exploitation, making The Alaskan as much a meditation on stewardship as a tale of peril and romance. Readers drawn to classic wilderness fiction will find The Alaskan rewarding for its atmospheric power, moral clarity, and historical glimpse of frontier mythology. It is especially recommended to those interested in adventure narratives shaped by ecological feeling and romantic idealism.
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Alaskan is a vigorous northern romance in which the immensities of Alaska become both setting and moral force. Curwood stages adventure, intrigue, and love against glaciers, forests, and frontier settlements, contrasting human greed with the austere grandeur of the wilderness. Written in the tradition of early twentieth-century adventure fiction associated with Jack London and Rex Beach, the novel combines melodramatic plotting with lyrical natural description and an unmistakable conservationist impulse. James Oliver Curwood, an American journalist, novelist, and outdoorsman, repeatedly drew upon his travels in Alaska and the Canadian Northwest to fashion popular tales of the North. His familiarity with hunting camps, remote rivers, and frontier society gave his fiction an authority prized by contemporary readers. Yet Curwood's later work also reflects a growing unease with exploitation, making The Alaskan as much a meditation on stewardship as a tale of peril and romance. Readers drawn to classic wilderness fiction will find The Alaskan rewarding for its atmospheric power, moral clarity, and historical glimpse of frontier mythology. It is especially recommended to those interested in adventure narratives shaped by ecological feeling and romantic idealism. 128 pp. Englisch. N° de réf. du vendeur 9788028358761
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Alaskan is a vigorous northern romance in which the immensities of Alaska become both setting and moral force. Curwood stages adventure, intrigue, and love against glaciers, forests, and frontier settlements, contrasting human greed with the austere grandeur of the wilderness. Written in the tradition of early twentieth-century adventure fiction associated with Jack London and Rex Beach, the novel combines melodramatic plotting with lyrical natural description and an unmistakable conservationist impulse. James Oliver Curwood, an American journalist, novelist, and outdoorsman, repeatedly drew upon his travels in Alaska and the Canadian Northwest to fashion popular tales of the North. His familiarity with hunting camps, remote rivers, and frontier society gave his fiction an authority prized by contemporary readers. Yet Curwood's later work also reflects a growing unease with exploitation, making The Alaskan as much a meditation on stewardship as a tale of peril and romance. Readers drawn to classic wilderness fiction will find The Alaskan rewarding for its atmospheric power, moral clarity, and historical glimpse of frontier mythology. It is especially recommended to those interested in adventure narratives shaped by ecological feeling and romantic idealism. N° de réf. du vendeur 9788028358761
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -The Alaskan is a vigorous northern romance in which the immensities of Alaska become both setting and moral force. Curwood stages adventure, intrigue, and love against glaciers, forests, and frontier settlements, contrasting human greed with the austere grandeur of the wilderness. Written in the tradition of early twentieth-century adventure fiction associated with Jack London and Rex Beach, the novel combines melodramatic plotting with lyrical natural description and an unmistakable conservationist impulse. James Oliver Curwood, an American journalist, novelist, and outdoorsman, repeatedly drew upon his travels in Alaska and the Canadian Northwest to fashion popular tales of the North. His familiarity with hunting camps, remote rivers, and frontier society gave his fiction an authority prized by contemporary readers. Yet Curwood's later work also reflects a growing unease with exploitation, making The Alaskan as much a meditation on stewardship as a tale of peril and romance. Readers drawn to classic wilderness fiction will find The Alaskan rewarding for its atmospheric power, moral clarity, and historical glimpse of frontier mythology. It is especially recommended to those interested in adventure narratives shaped by ecological feeling and romantic idealism. 128 pp. Englisch. N° de réf. du vendeur 9788028358761
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. The Alaskan | A Northern Wilderness Adventure of Frontier Romance, Greed, and Preservation in Early Twentieth-Century Alaska | James Oliver Curwood | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2023 | Sharp Ink | EAN 9788028358761 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, 170 00 PRAGUE, TSCHECHIEN, kristoferpaetau[at]gmail[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu. N° de réf. du vendeur 128619936
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