Smoke Bellew — Jack London

This is a tale of wild adventures in the Klondike in which Christopher Bellew nicknamed Smoke proves himself the hero of countless marvelous exploits Bellew who has drifted into journalism in San Francisco is invited by his uncle to take a short trip to the gold region the elder man deploring the softness of his dilettante nephew who seems to have degenerated from the hardihood and physical prowess of his race At the first taste of the wild life however the young man s inheritance asserts itself and he decides to remain in the Klondike instead of returning with his uncle He immediately plunges into the strenuous activities of the North and in a short space of time trains himself to battle successfully with the elements and to endure the terrible hardships of the country At the outset he is spurred on by an encounter with a spirited girl named Joy Gastell whose father is an Old timer and who from childhood has been accustomed to cast her lot in with the hardy explorers

This is a tale of wild adventures in the Klondike in which Christopher Bellew nicknamed Smoke proves himself the hero of countless marvelous exploits Bellew who has drifted into journalism in San Francisco is invited by his uncle to take a short trip to the gold region the elder man deploring the softness of his dilettante nephew who seems to have degenerated from the hardihood and physical prowess of his race At the first taste of the wild life however the young man s inheritance asserts itself and he decides to remain in the Klondike instead of returning with his uncle He immediately plunges into the strenuous activities of the North and in a short space of time trains himself to battle successfully with the elements and to endure the terrible hardships of the country At the outset he is spurred on by an encounter with a spirited girl named Joy Gastell whose father is an Old timer and who from childhood has been accustomed to cast her lot in with the hardy explorers