Children of the Frost
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : BEYOND BOOKS HUB |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2023-07-15 |
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Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book Children of the Frost written by Jack London and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Barrens — well, they are the Barrens, the bad lands of the Arctic, the deserts of the Circle, the bleak and bitter home of the musk-ox and the lean plains wolf. So Avery Van Brunt found them, treeless and cheerless, sparsely clothed with moss and lichens, and altogether uninviting. At least so he found them till he penetrated to the white blank spaces on the map, and came upon undreamed-of rich spruce forests and unrecorded Eskimo tribes. It had been his intention, (and his bid for fame), to break up these white blank spaces and diversify them with the black markings of mountain-chains, sinks and basins, and sinuous river courses; and it was with added delight that he came to speculate upon the possibilities of timber belts and native villages...FROM THE BOOKS.