{"product_id":"2026200010345-secondhand-the-best-of-robert-service","title":"The Best Of Robert Service","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew poets have captured the raw, unforgiving spirit of the Yukon wilderness and the trembling edge of human endurance quite like Robert Service. The Best of Robert Service assembles more than 100 of his most celebrated poems, spanning the rugged ballads of the Klondike Gold Rush — including immortal works like The Shooting of Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee — through to his vivid dispatches from Bohemian Paris and the blood-soaked trenches of the First World War.\n\nService, often called the Bard of the Yukon, wielded a deceptively simple, rhythmically irresistible verse style that disguised a profound moral and emotional depth. His poetry chronicles the lives of prospectors, drifters, soldiers, and wanderers — ordinary men pushed to extraordinary limits — with a narrative drive that reads more like a thriller than a verse collection. This anthology stands as an essential testament to a voice that remains as vital and electrifying today as when it first echoed across the frozen north.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130692673755,"sku":"2026200010345-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/967c139d-6648-4cf8-aeed-d2660e526fef.png?v=1786588562","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010345-secondhand-the-best-of-robert-service","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}