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.