Could You Survive the Klondike? Boek Geschiedenis Internationaal

A hundred thousand people went north. Sixty thousand never got there.July 1897. A steamer reaches Seattle carrying two tons of Klondike gold. Within hours, the city is seized by gold fever.You are thirty-one. You sew for a living. You own a sewing machine, rent one room and have a little under three hundred dollars.It might be enough to begin.Fifty times in this book, somebody asks you what you do next.Buy your supplies before prices rise or wait until the rumours become facts. Choose between a partner with money and one with experience. Pay a packer or carry two thousand pounds over the mountains yourself, fifty pounds at a time. Cross the pass after the Tlingit guides have warned everyone to stay away.You choose. Then you read what all four choices cost, and what the person there actually did.Every situation happened to someone. Every price and date comes from the historical record, with the sources named after each section.Three numbers travel with you from Seattle to the Klondike, and you keep the totals yourself. Where you finish depends on what you spend, what you carry and how much risk you are willing to accept for gold you may never find.Fifty decisions. One journey north. No guarantee you will reach the goldfields.Your first decision is whether to open it.