Paperback (Illustrated Edition)

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Product Description

A Royal Northwest Canadian Mounty always gets his man. Or does he? Will David Carrigan catch Black Roger Audemard and escape his captors as they traverse thousands of miles of Northern rivers and forests? Read to find out! Having spent years in the Canadian wilderness during the early 1900's, James Oliver Curwood authentically embodies the wild ruggedness of the land and the people in his timeless stories and characters. "The Flaming Forest" originally printed in 1921 is full of Curwood's love of life and the great outdoors; with adventure, mystery, and romance - there is something for everyone!

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3508945 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

About the Author
James Oliver Curwood lived most of his life in Owosso, Michigan, where he was born on June 12, 1878. His first novel was The Courage of Captain Plum (1908) and he published one or two novels each year thereafter, until his death on August 13, 1927. Owosso residents honor his name to this day, and Curwood Castle (built in 1922) is the town's main tourist attraction. During the 1920s Curwood became one of America's best selling and most highly paid authors. This was the decade of his lasting classics The Valley of Silent Men (1920) and The Flaming Forest (1921). He and his wife Ethel were outdoors fanatics and active conservationists.

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Customer Reviews

A Mountie torn between duty and love in the Canadian north.
The Flaming Forest is unapologetic northern Romance in the grandest tradition. Curwood's love for the Canadian north is a little jarring at first, at least to a jaded Canadian such as myself, but in his hands Canada is transformed into a land of mystery and myth, a place where the Mountie still gets his man and the French Canadian rivermen (with their scarlet headscarves) are forever singing, and where the French Canadian daughter of a river baron is too lovely for words (although Curwood sure does try), and where bad guys have names like "Black Roger Audemard". At the same time, the novel was less of an adventure than a love story/ mystery. The mystery was a page-turner, and the love story was all you could ask for -- just don't expect a two-fisted, pulp style adventure.