Lanterna Rally

Author: James Curwood

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Published: 2016-08-17

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781537129518

"The narrative moves with swiftness and has some thrilling moments, also a well-sustained mystery, and a good rousing fight for the last chapters. It is, in short, a lively melodrama, interesting, entertaining, and full of action." -New York Times "It is by all odds the best of all the virile and dramatic romances of the north Mr. Curwood has told. It hangs on the strange promise Philip Weyman is called upon to make by a girl he meets far off in God's country. In the splendid balance of his story, its baffling mystery, and its powerful and living romance, Mr. Curwood has shown a superiority to anything he has yet done. And besides these things he has painted in a way that will not soon be forgotten an almost epic picture of that 'Aristocracy of the North,' as he calls it - that splendid race of men and women who live in the great Hudson's Bay Country, whose ancestry, if the facts were known, could be traced back to the best blood of France and England of two centuries ago." -Detroit Free Press "This final battle is one of the strongest parts of the story. The story is a strong lesson in the value of faith." -Boston Transcript "Like the majority of the nine other novels to his credit, James Oliver Curwood's new book, 'God's Country - and the Woman,' is the story of the far North, the land lying beyond the Great Lakes and south of the Arctic Circle. In this district, to which he has given the name of 'God's Country,' he spends half of every year, cutting trails, hunting big game and making friends with the Indians, half breeds and white of the Hudson's Bay trading posts. He claims a larger acquaintance among these people of the Far North than any other white man, not excepting men of 'the Company.' So it is that he writes with a first-hand knowledge of the country and the life he portrays, and he writes both vividly and entertainingly. His characters, too, are all real people, taking from among his friends of the North. As for the story itself, it is a stirring romance, with action on every page, and a strong thread of mystery running through it which keeps the reader hurrying on breathlessly to the climax. The plot hang on the strange promise Philip Weyman is called upon to make by a girl whom he meets and loves far up in the northern country, and his attempts to solve the mystery which hangs over Adare House, her home." -The Michigan Alumnus "The hero and heroine have a most engaging love affair, which, with the stirring action and thrilling descriptions of scenery, puts this story among the best of its kind." -Springfield Republican