Sailor in snowshoes

"In 1897, a 21-year-old unemployed Californian named Jack london borrowed funds so he could make his fortune in the Klondike. Though London set sail for the north to accumulate gold rather than write about it, in the back of his mind lurked a resolve to become a writer. Everywhere he wandered, he absorbed the experiences and observation he later organized into mesmerizing stories. His masterpieces about the gold rush - The Call of the Wild and White Fang - remain to this day the finest record of the atmosphere, the overlay of the cold, the romance and the stark nature of survival in the wilderness." "Sailor on Snowshoes is at once a regional history, page-turning mystery and Yukon yarn - a ramble through Jack London's gold rush to find and preserve its tangible relics. In particular, it is the story of the search for a holy grail - the Yukon bush cabin in which London wrote his name."--BOOK JACKET.