| #3470381 in Books | 2007-12-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x5.50 x.75l,1.10 | Binding: Perfect Paperback | 350 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| an amazing adventure story based on the lives of real pioneers|By Marko|This is wonderful historical novel full of adventure. I learned a lot about Russia/Ukraine and the Canadian Yukon of the 1890's. This is a well written, unique and interesting pioneer story based on Ruth Shalett's grandmother's diary.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.||"Ruth Littman has written a compelling story of life, love and the struggle for identity. Jacob battles the elements and other dangers on his journey. Malka too overcomes obstacles, including her own demons to create a new life with Finesilver in the goldrush
Finesilver's Gold is a Jewish adventure like no other, It begins in 1894, when Jacob Finesilver, age 19, escapes conscription into the Czar's army by walking from his shtetl, Khotin, in the Ukraine to the Yukon. News of the Klondike goldrush has reached into the Ukraine, and has inflamed Jacob s imagination, as it did thousands of others from the United States and Canada. Finesilver's plan is to cross the frozen Bering Sea during the winter, when he can walk acro...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Finesilver's Gold | Ruth Shalett Littman. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
