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Gold Diggers

Striking It Rich in the Klondike

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Gold Diggers

Written by: Charlotte Gray
Narrated by: Steven Cooper
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Between 1896 and 1899, thousands of people lured by gold braved a grueling journey into the remote wilderness of North America. Within two years, Dawson City, in the Canadian Yukon, grew from a mining camp of four hundred to a raucous town of more than thirty thousand. The stampede to the Klondike was the last great gold rush in history.

Scurvy, dysentery, frostbite, and starvation stalked all who dared to be in Dawson. And yet the possibilities attracted people from all walks of life. Gold Diggers is the remarkable story of the Klondike Gold Rush told through the lives of six very different people: the miner William Haskell; the saintly priest Father Judge; the savvy twenty-four-year-old businesswoman Belinda Mulrooney; the imperious British journalist Flora Shaw; spit-and-polish Sam Steele of the Mounties; and, most famous, the writer Jack London, who left without gold but with the stories that would make him a legend.

Brilliantly interweaving their experiences, Charlotte Gray presents a fascinating panorama of a subarctic town, drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and stories.

©2010 Charlotte Gray (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Americas Canada World
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Having lived through a modern day gold rush in the goldfields of Northern Ontario, it was a thrill to encounter this interwoven narrative of some of the Klondike’s dreamers and schemers. Gray captures well the reality of the fact that once the North digs its hooks into a person, all else pales in comparison.

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But audio is very bad. It sounds like computer voice. its very monotone. Probably the worse Audio book I have ever listened. I want to buy paperback.

The book is great

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Harsh times relive the past in there shoes, tough old bunch good characters n history

Good bot of history

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