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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back [1923]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - eng, Pages 358. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. COMPLETE LEATHER WILL COST YOU EXTRA US$ 25 APART FROM THE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. {FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE.}

Here is a story of Alaska, circa 1920. Mary Standish, a hauntingly beautiful, mysterious young woman and Alan Holt, a native of the Tundra, meet aboard the Nome as it steams for Alaska via the Inside Passage. Mary was running from someone or something, back in Seattle where she came aboard. She reveals a part of her secret to Alan and then commits a stunning act that haunts Alan even as he returns to the Tundra. This act bears tremendous consequences for Alan and the entire territory of Alaska which culminates in a blazing gun battle....

In The Alaskan, James Oliver Curwood mixes elements typical of Western stories with parts retelling Alaskan history and long descriptive passages about the natural environment. Subtitled A Novel of the North, the book has all the elements that make an adventure story great: eventfulness, romance and mystery are all there to guarantee entertainment.The story starts on a boat headed for Alaska. Onboard are Mary Standish, the heroin, Alan Holt, the hero and John Graham, the evil character. Later on, other colorful characters join in to make the novel a true epic of Alaska, in which the pure-hearted hero saves the new state from being ruled by corrupt barons. The story is not only eventful – it is also full of unexpected twists and romance and it makes the most of the tradition of Western stories, this time used in creating a story about the wild North, replacing dust and heat with mountain landscapes and freezing temperatures, but keeping the figure of the complex hero. The descriptions of the Alaskan tundra add even more value to the book – readers will find themselves not only completely absorbed in the amazing plot, but also wanting to visit harsh, but stunningly beautiful Alaska.The Alaskan, just like Curwood’s other books, enjoyed huge popularity at the beginning of the 1920’s across the US. The success of his first stories allowed Curwood to travel extensively, especially to the northwestern part of Canada and to Alaska, so the nature descriptions in the novel are inspired by the author’s own experiences. His novels were very often compared to the wonderful writings of Jack London, and several of them were adapted to film as well – almost twenty stories by Curwood, including The Alaskan have been made into movies and continue to enjoy great popularity among the fans of adventure novels and motion pictures as well.

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The Alaskan CHAPTER I Captain Rifle, gray and old in the Alaskan Steamship service, had not lost the spirit of his youth along with his years. Romance was not dead in him, and the fire which is built up of clean adventure and the association of strong men and a mighty country had not died out of his veins. He could still see the picturesque, feel the thrill of the unusual, and--at times--warm memories crowded upon him so closely that yesterday seemed today, and Alaska was young again, thrilling the world with her wild call to those who had courage to come and fight for her treasures, and live--or die. Tonight, with the softly musical throb of his ship under his feet, and the yellow moon climbing up from behind the ramparts of the Alaskan mountains, something of loneliness seized upon him, and he said simply: "That is Alaska." The girl standing beside him at the rail did not turn, nor for a moment did she answer. He could see her profile clear-cut as a cameo in the almost vivid light, and in that light her eyes were wide and filled with a dusky fire, and her lips were parted a little, and her slim body was tense as she looked at the wonder of the moon silhouetting the cragged castles of the peaks, up where the soft, gray clouds lay like shimmering draperies. Then she turned her face a little and nodded. "Yes, Alaska," she said, and the old captain fancied there was the slightest ripple of a tremor in her voice. "Your Alaska, Captain Rifle."