A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River

Description

In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan ONeill set off from Dawson, Yukon Territory, onetime site of the Klondike gold rush, to trace the majestic Yukon River. His journey downriver to Circle City, Alaska, is an expedition into the history of the river and its land, and a record of the inimitable and little known inhabitants of the region. With the distinct perspective of an insider, A Land Gone Lonesome gives us an intelligent, rhapsodic-and ultimately, probably the last-portrait of the Yukon and its authentic inhabitants.

Dan O'Neill is the author of A Land Gone Lonesomeand The Last Giant of Beringia. He was named Alaska Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society for The Firecracker Boys. He lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.

"A colorful and meandering portrait.... O'Neill casts a mold of the Yukon landscape before nature takes back the last human footprint." "O'Neill is a talented historian.... His witty travelogue includes epic themes of self-reliance, heroism and humanity." "The reportage is cool and bright as the flowing waters of the Yukon. Another writerly gold strike in the Klondike."