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Resumen de Isobel
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Readers who love wilderness adventure, sled chases and storms, and those who enjoy a tender romance built on loyalty, honor and sacrifice, with a faithful friendship and a child at its heart.
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Isobel: A Romance of the Northern Trail is an adventure novel by James Oliver Curwood, who spent much of his life writing about the Canadian wilderness. It was written in the early years of the twentieth century and follows the men of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, the Mounties, who keep the law in the far north around Hudson's Bay.
The hero is Sergeant Billy MacVeigh. He lives at the northernmost post of the law, a battered cabin at Point Fullerton, where the dark winter and the silence wear men down. Curwood calls loneliness the most terrible thing in the world, and the whole book grows out of that idea. When a woman appears out of the night on the frozen Barren Lands, Billy has to choose between his duty and his heart.
You get a story of sled trails, blizzards, a hunted man, a rival with a grudge, and a small child who changes the lives of everyone who meets her. You also get a clear picture of the Arctic and the forests below it, drawn by a writer who loved them. Let us begin with two Mounties alone at the top of the world, waiting for the sun.
En este resumen
- 1Two Mounties at the top of the worldFree
- 2A woman and a box on the Barren
- 3An empty box and a rival with a grudge
- 4Billy catches Deane and makes a choice
- 5Pelliter, the stranger and the child
- 6An unseen enemy and a desperate flight
- 7Loneliness is the real enemy here
- 8The Law against what is right
- 9How Curwood tells the tale
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Two Mounties at the top of the world
The story opens at Point Fullerton, a thousand miles north of what Curwood calls civilization. Sergeant William MacVeigh, called Billy, finishes his half-yearly report for his chief in Regina. In it he owns that he has not yet caught a murderer named Scottie Deane. He adds a note about wolves that kill thousands of caribou each year.
His partner, Private Pelliter, lies sick in a bunk. Pelliter has gone nine months without seeing a white face but Billy's, and he believes the sickness is in his head. It is the fever of loneliness. He dreams of the girl who waits for him in the south and of the letters she must have written him.
Then the two men see a sliver of red gold in the sky. It is the first sun in four months, and for a moment it saves Pelliter's spirits. Billy decides to race four hundred and fifty miles to Fort Churchill for medicine and for the mail. He promises to be back in about three weeks.
The trip takes nine days. At Churchill he finds nine letters for Pelliter and none for himself, since the girl he loved has married another man. He tells the girl waiting for Pelliter what the sickness is and asks her to come north and marry him in the spring. A scout then reports that he has seen a white man and a white woman near the Maguse River, and Billy, who has never heard of a white woman so far north, sets out to find them.
He leaves his dogs with an Eskimo village, where the headman Bye-Bye gives him no help and vanishes in a snowstorm. Billy goes on alone by snowshoe toward the Barren. Under the brilliant stars he feels watched and uneasy, and he hears the faint singing of sled runners coming toward him across the snow.
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Questions about Isobel
What is Isobel by James Oliver Curwood about?
It follows Sergeant Billy MacVeigh of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, who meets a mysterious woman on the Barren Lands and has to choose between his duty to the law and loyalty to her. A lost child and a loyal friend add to the adventure.
Who is Little Mystery in Isobel?
Little Mystery is the name Pelliter gives a golden-haired little girl he finds starving in an igloo. She saves him from fever and madness, and her unknown family draws danger toward the two Mounties.
What does the blue flower mean in Isobel?
The blue flower is a dried bloom Billy keeps for years, believing it holds the spirit of all that is purest and loveliest, and he thinks of that as woman. He gives it to Isobel, and it becomes a symbol of faith and sacrifice.
When was Isobel written and where is it set?
Curwood wrote it in the early twentieth century. It is a work of fiction, but its setting is real: the shores of Hudson's Bay, Fort Churchill and the northern Barren Lands of Canada, where the Mounties kept watch.
Is Isobel worth reading today?
If you enjoy adventure, it offers a fast story with sled chases, storms and a loyal friendship. Its short chapters, clear language and warm tone make it easy to follow, and its picture of the Arctic is vivid.