The Cremation of Sam McGee Softcover Book

There are strange things done

in the midnight sun

By the men who moil for gold

No poet has captured the desperate days and frigid nights of the Gold Rush more memorably than Robert Service in "The Cremation of Sam McGee." A poem about a doomer prospector adrift in a harsh land, this is Service's masterpiece. 

To illustrate the poem, internationally renowned painter Ted Harrison puts his signature bold lines, broad brushstrokes, and unconventional choice of colour to brilliant use in evoking the spare beauty of the Yukon.