Smoke Bellew

Smoke Bellew is a vigorous cycle of linked Klondike tales tracing Christopher "Kit" Bellew, a cultivated San Francisco journalist, as he becomes the resourceful frontier figure known as Smoke. London combines comic initiation, physical ordeal, and romantic adventure with the harder textures of naturalism: hunger, cold, chance, and competition test character more severely than civilization ever has. Published in the wake of the gold-rush story's popularity, the book belongs to the tradition of American frontier fiction while questioning its myth ...