Books with author James Olive Curwood

In The Gold Hunters we find 3 men in search of a treasure of gold hidden away in the upper reaches of the Canadian wilderness. One, a young white man, another his half breed friend, and the third the wise old Indian sage who communes with the wilderness as only his people have done through the generations. The 3 men know the gold is there, they had found the map which is leading them to it. Yet it seems that the map is leading them to places that don't exist, and each day finds a new adventure and new dangers which they must overcome if they are to achieve their reward.

• Two animal adventure novels by James Oliver Curwood are in this Kindle eBook: Kazan and the sequel Baree, Son of KazanKazanThorpe and his hunting dog Kazan, one-quarter wolf and three-quarters husky, go to the Canadian wilderness where they meet McCready. The men appear to know each other and have an abusive relationship. When McCready attacks Thorpe's wife, Kazan kills him and runs for his safety. He encounters a wolf pack and a young female gray wolf, and becomes their leader.Baree, Son of KazanThe sequel to Kazan. The wild wolfdog pup Baree survives after he is separated from his parents and finds a girl named Nepeese and her father Pierrot, a trapper. He and Nepeese form an attachment in this great adventure story.About The AuthorAmerican author James Oliver Curwood (1878 –1927) wrote action-adventure novels and his books were among the most read in America in the 1900s. More than a dozen Hollywood films have been based on his frontier novels including “The Bear.”

The Bear He's an orphan at the start of a journey . . . a journey to survive. Thor, a mighty grizzly, and Muskwa, a motherless bear cub, become companions in the Canadian wilderness, going from one adventure to another, picking berries, fishing in rivers, encountering other animals of the forest—all while two bear trappers are drawing nearer and nearer. . . .

James Oliver Curwood was an early 20th century writer who lived in Michigan, where he published several novels a year. Curwood loved the outdoors and is known for his conservation efforts. This adventurous story of a woman in peril begins "It was all new - most of it singularly dramatic and even appalling to the woman who sat with the pearl-gray veil drawn closely about her face. For eighteen hours she had been a keenly attentive, wide-eyed, and partly frightened bit of humanity in this onrush of "the horde." She had heard a voice behind her speak of it as "the horde" - a deep, thick, gruff voice which she knew without looking had filtered its way through a beard."

To Baree, for many days after he was born, the world was a vast gloomy cavern.During these first days of his life his home was in the heart of a great windfall where Gray Wolf, his blind mother, had found a safe nest for his babyhood, and to which Kazan, her mate, came only now and then, his eyes gleaming like strange balls of greenish fire in the darkness. It was Kazan’s eyes that gave to Baree his first impression of something existing away from his mother’s side, and they brought to him also his discovery of vision. He could feel, he could smell, he could hear—but in that black pit under the fallen timber he had never seen until the eyes came. At first they frightened him; then they puzzled him, and his fear changed to an immense curiosity. He would be looking straight at them, when all at once they would disappear. This was when Kazan turned his head. And then they would flash back at him again out of the darkness with such startling suddenness that Baree would involuntarily shrink closer to his mother, who always trembled and shivered in a strange sort of way when Kazan came in.Baree, of course, would never know their story. He would never know that Gray Wolf, his mother, was a full-blooded wolf, and that Kazan, his father, was a dog. In him nature was already beginning its wonderful work, but it would never go beyond certain limitations. It would tell him, in time, that his beautiful wolf-mother was blind, but he would never know of that terrible battle between Gray Wolf and the lynx in which his mother’s sight had been destroyed. Nature could tell him nothing of Kazan’s merciless vengeance, of the wonderful years of their matehood, of their loyalty, their strange adventures in the great Canadian wilderness—it could make him only a son of Kazan.But at first, and for many days, it was all mother. Even after his eyes had opened wide and he had found his legs so that he could stumble about a little in the darkness, nothing existed for Baree but his mother. When he was old enough to be playing with sticks and moss out in the sunlight, he still did not know what she looked like. But to him she was big and soft and warm, and she licked his face with her tongue, and talked to him in a gentle, whimpering way that at last made him find his own voice in a faint, squeaky yap.

The basis for several memorable film adaptations, Nomads of the North is a gripping action-adventure tale that offers readers a heady blend of misbegotten love, crossed wires, daring getaways, and courageous deeds. Will recently reunited lovers Raoul and Nanette make it as fugitives living in the harsh Northern forest? Read Nomads of the North to find out.