Kings of the Yukon - Adam Weymouth

**Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2018 and the Lonely Planet Adventure Travel Book of the Year 2019**

'Weymouth
combines acute political, personal and ecological understanding, with
the most beautiful writing reminiscent of a young Robert Macfarlane. He
is, I have no doubt, a significant voice for the future' Andrew Holgate,
Sunday Times literary editor

'Adam Weymouth takes his place beside the great travel writers' Susan Hill

A captivating, lyrical account of an epic voyage by canoe down the Yukon River.

The
Yukon River is almost 2,000 miles long, flowing through Canada and
Alaska to the Bering Sea. Setting out to explore one of the most
ruggedly beautiful and remote regions of North America, Adam Weymouth
journeyed by canoe on a four-month odyssey through this untrammelled
wilderness, encountering the people who have lived there for
generations. The Yukon's inhabitants have long depended on the king
salmon who each year migrate the entire river to reach their spawning
grounds. Now the salmon numbers have dwindled, and the encroachment of
the modern world has changed the way of life on the Yukon, perhaps for
ever.

Weymouth's searing portraits of these people and landscapes offer an elegiac glimpse of a disappearing world. Kings of the Yukon is an extraordinary adventure, told by a powerful new voice.