· Overview. One of the premier novelists of the twentieth century, James A. Michener captures a frenzied time when sane men and women risked their very lives in a forbidding Arctic land to win a dazzling and elusive prize: Yukon gold. In , gold fever sweeps the world. The promise of untold riches lures thousands of dreamers from all walks of life on a perilous trek toward fortune, failure—or Brand: Random House Publishing Group. One of the premier novelists of the twentieth century, James A. Michener captures a frenzied time when sane men and women risked their very lives in a forbidding Arctic land to win a dazzling and elusive prize: Yukon gold. In , gold fever sweeps the world/5(). Padded to an un-Michenerly ppwith a chapter on how the novel came to be and excerpts from a volume of poetry privately printed by Lutton to commemorate the expedition--this is a mere day-trip through Michener's heavy-handed prose and easy travel, no doubt a best-seller. Pub Date: July 19th, ISBN:
Where does Journey rank among all the audiobooks you've listened to so far? Near the bottom. The plot was interesting but it seemed more like an outline for a novel, or even a short story - definitely not the depth that Michener usually puts into his books. My main issue with this audiobook, however, was with the narrator. James Michener has a remarkable talent for introducing a setting and taking his readers on a journey, that will make one understand the area through it's history and it's people. In Chesapeake, he forms a novel around that area in Maryland that borders the Choptank River, a tributary of Chesapeake Bay. Somehow or other, Journey slipped through the cracks, so I was eager to read it-- especially since it takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush during the late s. As Michener states at the end of the book, Journey was originally a chapter in his novel, Alaska, and it had to be cut from the final edition.
As Michener states at the end of the book, Journey was originally a chapter in his novel, Alaska, and it had to be cut from the final edition. He liked the story so much that he kept it, and it was published as a novel in James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Journey, a novel by James Michener published in , was expanded from a section originally cut from his large novel Alaska (). The book depicts five men, one of whom was an English Lord, journeying in from Great Britain through Canada to Dawson, Yukon, to participate in the Klondike gold rush. According to the novel's afterword, the section was cut from the original book because Alaska already contained a chapter on the Alaskan side of the gold rush.
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