Burning Daylight
By: Jack London.
Series: American classics
Publisher: Mondial
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781595691064
Subjects: Bankruptcy -- Fiction; Gold mines and mining -- Alaska -- Fiction; Women pioneers -- Fiction; Oakland (Calif.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: A prospector nicknamed Burning Daylight strikes it rich during the Alaskan Gold Rush, but after he's cheated out of his fortune by crooks on Wall Street, he becomes a scoundrel. Moving to Oakland, California, he buys property, and sets up utilities and public transportation systems through overbearing and shady tactics. He becomes self-indulgent with drink and food. And then, for the first time, he falls in love.