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Title: To Win or to Die
A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze

Author: George Manville Fenn

Illustrator: Paul Hardy

Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21377]

Language: English

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To Win or to Die, A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze, by George Manville
Fenn.

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This is a tough tale about tough men. Right from the first chapter we
are living with men who are fighting for survival, the enemy being as
often as not other men who would rob them. Chapter after chapter leaves
the heroes in some new desperate plight, which, when overcome, is almost
at once replaced by yet another one.

It is not a very long book, and it is very well illustrated, but it is a
breathless race from one peril to the next.

I cannot say that you should enjoy or be entertained by reading of other
peoples' misfortunes, but the author intended that you should be so
entertained, and you will be.

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TO WIN OR TO DIE, A TALE OF THE KLONDIKE GOLD CRAZE, BY GEORGE MANVILLE
FENN.

CHAPTER ONE.

A BREAK-DOWN.

"It's a lie! I don't and I won't believe it."

The speaker half whispered that, and then he shouted, "Do you hear?"

There was a pause, and then from the face of a huge white snow-cliff
there came back the word "hear."

"Well done, echo!" cried the speaker.

"Echo," came back.

"Thankye; that's quite cheering; anything's better than that horrible
silence. What do they say? When a man gets in the habit of talking to
himself it's a sign that he is going mad? Once more, it's a lie! A man
would go mad in this awful solitude if he didn't hear some one speaking.
Snow, snow, snow, and rock and mountain; and ugh! how cold! Pull up,
donkey! jackass! idiot! or you'll freeze to death."

The speaker was harnessed by a looped rope to a small, well-packed
sledge, after the fashion of one who tracks about along the