On the Trail of Robert Service
Will be published approx. on 20. November 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
186 pages
978-0-946487-24-0 (ISBN)
Description
To many, the Scottish bank clerk who became the Bard of the Yukon is a figure solely associated with the Klondike. Lockhart reveals Service's vagabond years in North America, and his later travels in Tahiti and Russia as well as his response to success.
Reviews / Votes
The story of a man who ... wrote verse for those who wouldn't be seen dead reading poetry. - Scots IndependentMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
294 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-946487-24-0 (9780946487240)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
G Wallace Lockhart, an expert on Scottish traditional folk music and dance, is the author of Highland Balls & Village Halls and Fiddles & Folk. His relish for a well-told tale in popular vernacular led him to fall in love with the verse of Robert Service and write his biography. He and his band Quern have created a musical presentation of Service's life which has been performed many times, including at the 1990 event commemorating the memory of Service in Brittany, and at the 1998 Klondike Centenary Conference at the Edinburgh University School of Canadian Studies.
Content
Contents; Early Years; Wandering Years; Call of the Yukon; The Inspired Rhymester; Characters of the Yukon; War Correspondent; Paris and the War; Hollywood and Tahiti; Russian Traveller; Refugee to Hollywood; The End of the Trail; Don't Call Me a Poet.