This is Volume 9 of Scout Book's new Good Inks series of great American shorts.
Each 32-page volume features a must-read American author juxtaposed with a contemporary illustrator, creating a unique artistic collaboration across the years.
The quintessential tale of Man versus Nature, “To Build a Fire” is the story of a hapless prospector’s struggle for warmth and life in the midst of the Yukon Territory.
Jack London’s clipped, naturalist prose brings the beauty and terror of the frozen North to startling life, and artist Michael Hsiung’s meticulously rendered illustrations inject new energy into this classic tale.
