The Best of Robert Service

The Best of Robert Service

Robert Service

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Hancock House Publishers
Año de edición:
2021
Materia
Historia de América
ISBN:
9780888393425
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This new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service, and is illustrated with lively art by Marilen Van Nimwegen. While living in Whitehorse, Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee, and other well-known poems. He wrote and published into his mid-eighties. He was quoted as saying, I just go for a walk and come back with a poem in my pocket.

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