The Best of Robert Service

by Robert Service

Paperback, 1940

Call number

811 SER

Collection

Publication

Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc (1940), 216 pages

Description

This new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service, and is illustrated with lively art by Marilen Van Nimwegen. While living in Whitehorse, Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee, and other well-known poems. He wrote and published into his mid-eighties. He was quoted as saying, I just go for a walk and come back with a poem in my pocket.

User reviews

LibraryThing member JBreedlove
A pleasant collection of poems. Written in the late part of the 19th and the early part of the 20th century these simple poems are glimpses of ordinary and not so ordinary lives and philosophies from 3 - 4 generations ago.
LibraryThing member campbell_m76
This book is a collection of poems by Robert Service from the early 1900s about life in the Yukon. The book includes poems such as "The Creation of Sam McGee" and "Dangerous Dan McGrew." The poems can be a little salty for young children but the word choice by the author beautifully portrays the
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Gold rush experience in the Yukon Territories and the frigid weather.

The book contains photos of the prospectors, the gold rush women, the dog teams and the communities at the time. This book accurately represents life in the time of the Gold rush.
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LibraryThing member Iudita
Margaret Atwood introduced me to Robert Service in an essay she wrote, and I'm so glad I tried him because I have discovered that I love a good ballad.

Pages

216
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