Product Description: A spellbinding true tale worthy of Jack London.

Product Description: In 1897, a 21-year-old unemployed Californian named Jack London borrowed funds so he could make his fortune in the Klondike. His life prior to the gold rush had been a story of toil and lean days. He knew how to pitch a tent, start a fire with minimal effort and how to go without either a fire or a blanket if circumstances required...read more

A chronicle of robberies and escapes through the wilderness of North America that eventually led up to a forty-eight-day running battle along the Arctic Circle that ended with his death in 1932 is captured in this story of Norwegian emigré Johnny Conrad Johnson's life and crimes.

The true account of one of the greatest manhunts in history retraces the events that led Albert Johnson to shoot a Canadian Mountie and then elude hundreds of pursuers in the wilderness for forty-eight days, covering some of the most inhospitable terrain on earth.