This new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the
North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service, and is
illustrated with lively art by Marilen Van Nimwegen. While living in
Whitehorse, Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee, and other
well-known poems. He wrote and published into his mid-eighties. He was
quoted as saying, I just go for a walk and come back with a poem in my
pocket.