YUKON

Canada's Yukon is one the world's last great wildernesses, where bears,moose and caribou roam. It's a place where hikers, paddlers, skiers andmushers can travel for days without seeing another human soul, where thenorthern lights dance green and red across starry skies, where glacierstumble, mountain peaks soar, and tundra shrubs scream scarlet as summerturns to fall. It's a land of heart-rending human stories, too, for theYukon is home to the Klondike, to which an estimated hundred thousanddreamers and desperadoes - including a young Jack London - once swarmed insearch of gold.Bradt's Yukon is the only guidebook dedicated to this natural andhistorical wonderland. Offering practical advice on everything from whereto pan for gold to how to avoid being eaten by a bear, alongside quirkyanecdotes (such as the story behind the 'sourtoe cocktail' - a shot ofwhisky garnished with a severed human toe), it's the perfect companion forhighway drivers, cruise-ship passengers, and outdoors enthusiasts alike.