The Spell of the Yukon Review

Average Reviews:

(More customer reviews)Are you looking to buy The Spell of the Yukon? Here is the right place to find the great deals. we can offer discounts of up to 90% on The Spell of the Yukon. Check out the link below:

>> Click Here to See Compare Prices and Get the Best Offers

The Spell of the Yukon ReviewRobert Service wrote in the golden years of the Klondike -- of the rough and ready men, and women just as tough. No-one in Robert's world (real or imagined) minced words or had any self-consciousness about them. It was live and let live and sometimes kill or be killed.
Reading his poems transports us back to that frozen place in nature when it was literally every man and every woman for him/herself, yet Robert conveys to us not only a sensitivity (in his poem extolling the simple light switch -- something quite novel in those times, especially in the Klondike), but the beauties he saw in the others -- gathered around the village's first "grammyphone", hearing the voice of "canned man" coming from it -- some savages taking to their canoes because it seems demonic, yet others equally savage, enraptured by this miracle of sound.
Cold cabins, with hoarfrost clinging to the inside rafters -- unwashed masses in itchy long-johns struggling out of bed on an arctic day -- and the beauty of the lilies ("Unforgotten") living side by side with a trapper's two-timing woman getting her just desserts (over "a black fox skin") -- Robert Service touches the heart and soul of the rough and raw Klondike in the early 1900's, and shows us the soul's emotions and colors from inky black to pure gold.The Spell of the Yukon OverviewOne said: Thy life is thine to make or mar, To flicker feebly, or to soar, a star; It lies with thee -- the choice is thine, is thine, To hit the ties or drive thy auto-car.

Want to learn more information about The Spell of the Yukon?

>> Click Here to See All Customer Reviews & Ratings Now