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Burning Daylight

Jack London

Book Overview: 

Burning Daylight, Jack London's fictional novel was one of the best selling books of that year and it was his best selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed Burning Daylight was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story of the main character was partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur "Borax" Smith. (Wikipedia)

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .d in it coarse gold, testpans running as high as six and eight dollars. Unfortunately, this streak of gravel was not more than an inch thick. Beneath it was more muck, tangled with the trunks of ancient trees and containing fossil bones of forgotten monsters. But gold they had found—coarse gold; and what more likely than that the big deposit would be found on bed-rock? Down to bed-rock they would go, if it were forty feet away. They divided into two shifts, working day and night, on two shafts, and the smoke of their burning rose continually.

It was at this time that they ran short of beans and that Elijah was despatched to the main camp to bring up more grub. Elijah was one of the hard-bitten old-time travelers himself. The round trip was a hundred miles, but he promised to be back on the third day, one day going light, two days returning heavy. Instead, he arrived on the night of the second day. They had just gone to bed when they heard him . . . Read More

Community Reviews

"Ruf des Goldes" ist eine interessante Mischung aus Abenteuerroman, Zurück-zur-Natur und Kapitalismuskritik.
Die erste Hälfte des Buches sind 5 Sterne wert. Die Abenteuer in der Wildnis, der Kampf mit der unbarmherzigen Natur die der Protagonist Burning Daylight mehrmals nur knapp überlebt, sind ungl

Jack London is simply the best. Each book is a confirmation of his talent.

The Russian literary scholar and translator Vil M. Bykow says that Elam Harnish, the role model for London’s hero, is said to have actually read Burning Daylight: "In his opinion, the book was like the weather in the north: sometimes great, sometimes terrible." I can only agree to that. The best par

A surprise: after the first part in Alaska, the novels gets to California, and look at the financial world, at the importance of money in a life, and of books and trees. How I'd like to believe in the existance of a man - and a woman - able of turning their back to millions of dollars. I don't know

Елам Харниш, известен още с прякора Сияйния, е главен герой в тази изключителна книга, която всеки ценител на качествената литература трябва да прочете.
Действието се развива в края на XIX в. по време на Златната треска в Северна Америка. Сияйния е представен като свръхсилен, умен, амбициозен млад зл

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