The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay 1897-1899 Berton PierrePaperback
The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay 1897-1899 Berton PierrePaperback The most photographed event in America during the 19th century.More than 10,000 images reside in public archives and private…
Specifikacia The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay 1897-1899 Berton PierrePaperback
The Klondike Quest: A Photographic Essay 1897-1899 Berton PierrePaperback
The most photographed event in America during the 19th century.More than 10,000 images reside in public archives and private collections, depicting every aspect of what popular historian Pierre Berton has called "one of the strangest mass movements in history." For this book, Berton selected 200 photographs, some iconic, some touchingly personal, and most previously unpublished.The Klondike Quest brings to life the panoramic drama of the great stampede for gold as seen by the ordinary gold-seeker. "One million people, it is said, laid plans to go to the Klondike. The photographs are beautifully reproduced and informatively and colorfully captioned.
And so the Klondike saga is a chronicle of humanity in the mass.... One hundred thousand actually set off. For the next eighteen months, the Yukon interior plateau became a human anthill."