The story of the Scottish bank clerk who became the Bard of the Yukon, the man who captivated the imagination of generations and painlessly introduced countless numbers to the beauties of verse. Robert Service is famed world-wide for his verse-pictures of the Klondike goldrush. As a war poet, his work outsold Owen and Sassoon, and he went on to become the world's first million-selling poet. In search of adventure and new experiences, he emigrated from Scotland to Canada in 1890 where he was caught up in the aftermath of the raging gold fever. His vivid dramatic verse brings to life the wild, larger than life characters of the gold rush Yukon, their bar-room brawls, their lust for gold, their trigger-happy gambles with life and love.