Journey (novel)

1989 novel by James Michener

Journey

First edition cover

Author| James Michener
Language| English
Genre| Historical novel
Publisher| Random House

Publication date

| 1989
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (Hardback)
Pages| 224pp.
ISBN| 0-394-57826-0

Journey, a novel by James Michener published in 1989, was expanded from a section originally cut from his large novel Alaska (1988). The book depicts five men, one of whom being an English Lord (Lord Luton), who journey from Great Britain through Canada to Dawson, Yukon in 1897-99 to participate in the Klondike gold rush. According to the novel's afterword, the section was cut from the original book because Alaska already contained a chapter on the Alaskan side of the gold rush. It was decided that chapter (which eventually became Journey) could stand on its own as a short novel.[1][2]

Directed by Lord Luton, the group purposefully embarks on a more difficult than normal route available to pioneers of the era, purely to ensure that they remain the entire route on British soil, avoiding American territory which Luton has a patriotic aversion against. Along the way they encounter the Athabasca Landing, the Great Slave Lake, the Mackenzie River, Fort Norman (a remote Hudson's Bay Company outpost), exploding ice floes in springtime, starvation, scurvy, swarming Arctic mosquitoes and members of the native Hän group.

## Journey Prize

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In 1989, Michener donated the royalty earnings from the Canadian edition of Journey, published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart, to endow the Journey Prize, an annual Canadian literary award worth Cdn$10,000 that is awarded for the year's best short story published by an emerging Canadian writer.[3][4]

## Research

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Michener notes during his 'Reflections' chapter of the book that the writings of J.G. MacGregor in Klondike Rush Through Edmonton 1897-1898 proved invaluable in describing conditions of the time, including susceptibility to scurvy.

## References

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1. ^ Michener, James (1987). "Afterword". Journey. Random House.
2. ^ "Journey Prize". McClelland & Stewart.
3. ^ Michener, James (1987). "Afterword". Journey. Random House.
4. ^ "Journey Prize". McClelland & Stewart.

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James A. Michener

Novels|

* The Fires of Spring (1949)
* The Bridges at Toko-ri (1953)
* Sayonara (1954)
* Hawaii (1959)
* Caravans (1963)
* The Source (1965)
* The Drifters (1971)
* Centennial (1974)
* Chesapeake (1978)
* The Watermen (1979)
* The Covenant (1980)
* Space (1982)
* Poland (1983)
* Texas (1985)
* Legacy (1987)
* Alaska (1988)
* Caribbean (1989)
* Journey (1989)
* The Novel (1991)
* South Pacific (1992)
* Mexico (1992)
* Recessional (1994)
* Miracle in Seville (1995)
* Matecumbe (2007)

Non-fiction|

* The Voice of Asia (1951)
* The Bridge at Andau (1957)
* Rascals in Paradise (1957)
* Iberia (1968)
* Collectors, Forgers – And A Writer: A Memoir (1983)
* The Eagle and the Raven (1990)
* My Lost Mexico (1992)
* The World Is My Home (1992)
* Literary Reflections (1993)

Short story collections|

* Tales of the South Pacific (1947)
* Return to Paradise (1951)

Adaptations|

* South Pacific (musical) (1949)
* The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1953)
* Return to Paradise (1953)
* Sayonara (1957)
* Until They Sail (1957)
* South Pacific (film) (1958)
* Adventures in Paradise (1959-1962)
* Hawaii (1966)
* The Hawaiians (1970)
* Centennial (1978)
* Space (1985)
* Texas (1994)
* South Pacific (film) (2001)

Related|

* Mari Yoriko Sabusawa (wife)
* Michener Center for Writers
* Journey Prize
* James A. Michener Art Museum

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