About the Author

Robert Service was born in England and earned a worldwide reputation as a poet of the Arctic. He died in Europe in 1958.

Ted Harrison is an internationally acclaimed artist best known for his vibrant interpretations of the Canadian North. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Reviews

[G]orgeously illustrated ... [A] wonderful new edition ... Harrison's pictures are startling and memorable--Winnipeg Free Press

No poem that I can think of, especially a comic one, was ever rendered so electrifyingly in paint--Book World

There are strange things done in the midnight sunBy the men who moil for books;The Arctic trails have their secret talesthat could give you second looks, The Northern Lights have seen their sightsBut the wisest they ever did seeWas the day in'06, complete with great pixThey reissued Sam McGee.--Globe and Mail