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Stampede

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Great look at the Yukon gold rush

I enjoyed this book. I found it to be character-driven and not event-driven, making the book all the more compelling. I found it hard to put down. It has an interesting structure where each chapter focuses on a specific year of the Gold Rush and on a different subject or person. Sometimes there was more than one chapter on a specific year, but each would have a different focus. The writing was crisp and never got bogged down in minutiae. However, it was somewhat disturbing that the author used archaic and racist terms to be authentic to the times, but this added nothing to the texture of the book and was completely unnecessary. Nonetheless I found the book well-worth the read. Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Random House Canada for the advance reader copy.

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