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Jack London

The Night-Born

Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform June 16, 2016) , Annotated Edition
*This book is Annotated (It contains a biography of the Author).* At the beginning of the second decade of the Twentieth Century, a couple of worn-out gold prospectors are swapping drinks and stories at a tavern in San Francisco. They made decent fortunes in the Alaska and Yukon gold rush, but the effort sucked most of the life out of them. One by the name of Trefethan is 47, but, as he says, he looks ten years older. The weary fortune hunter remembers back to 1898, twelve years before, when he crossed the Canadian Rockies east of Alaska Territory, and much to his surprise, deep in the wild interior, he met a woman.She was certainly no ordinary woman. No ordinary woman could have survived for years out there, a thousand miles from civilization. She was hunting and trapping and living free and independent where hardly any white man had ever gone, and the local natives respected and obeyed her.Putting up at her camp for a few days, Trefethan learned all about her past, what brought her to the end of the known world, and what more she seeks from life. But is he up to the challenge?First published in Everybody's Magazine in 1911, The Night-Born became the title story of a book collection that came out in 1913. Contents: The Night-born -- The madness of John Harned -- When the world was young -- The benefit of the doubt -- Winged blackmail -- Bunches of knuckles -- War -- Under the deck awnings -- To kill a man -- The Mexican.
ISBN
1534682716 / 9781534682719
Pages
102
Weight
5.1 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.23 in.

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