I Married the Klondike
Book description
In 1907, Laura Beatrice Berton, a 29-year-old kindergarten teacher, left her comfortable life in Toronto Ontario to teach in a Yukon mining town. She fell in love with the North--and with a northerner--and made Dawson City her home for the next 25 years. I Married the Klondike is her classic…
Why read it?
1 author picked I Married the Klondike as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This wonderful autobiography tells of Laura Burton in 1907 at the age of 29 leaving Toronto to teach in the Klondike where she lived for decades.
In a preface, Robert Service, “Bard of the Yukon,” wrote: “This is a brave book... It is the gallant personality of the author, which shines on every page and makes her chronicle a saga of the High North…. All this told with humour [and] with graphic detail…” Burton, who knew Service and Jack London, shows that much that I thought was fiction about these times was truth.
For example, the famous sequence in the…
Want books like I Married the Klondike?
Our community of 10,000+ authors has personally recommended 75 books like I Married the Klondike.
Browse books like I Married the Klondike
5 book lists we think you will like!
Interested in Toronto, Canada, and the Klondike Gold Rush?
10,000+ authors have recommended their favorite books and what they love about them. Browse their picks for the best books about Toronto, Canada, and the Klondike Gold Rush.