Wanderers of the North

American writer, hunter, traveler, and naturalist James Oliver Curwood entered literary history as a classic of adventure and animal prose, whose books stand alongside «The Call of the Wild» and «White Fang» by Jack London and «Stories of Animals» by Ernest Thompson Seton. The themes, plots, and characters of Curwood's works originate from the remote taiga regions of Northern Canada and Alaska, where the author spent a significant part of his life traveling.

The main characters of the novel «Wanderers of the North» (1919) — a domestic puppy named Miki and a bear cub named Neva, who accidentally find themselves together in the forest — face a series of harsh and dangerous trials that bring them to the brink of death, during which they grow up, become braver, bond, and learn to help each other. The novel «In the Depths of the North» (1922) narrates the difficult journey of the fearless and noble bandit Roger MacKay, his young beloved Neida, and their loyal dog Peter Kromuli, pursued by the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, across Canada — from south to north and back, through the wind-swept and snowstorm-ridden vastness of the North American tundra…