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Nomads of the North

A Story of Romance and Adventure Under the Open Stars

by James Oliver Curwood 1878–1927

The book, and the century it came out of.

A bear cub and a pup, orphaned the same week, take up together in the northern forest — and a man and a woman are running from the Mounted Police through the same country. Curwood was expelled from school, sold his first story at sixteen, and was paid by the Canadian government to travel the far north; he later gave up hunting entirely, and Neewa and Miki are why. Illustrated with 60 full-page plates — paintings by Sweden, Osslund and Dahl among them.

It was late in the month of March, at the dying-out of the Eagle Moon, that Neewa the black bear cub got his first real look at the world.
The first sentence of Nomads of the North
A note on this edition

Nomads of the North, by James Oliver Curwood, complete and unabridged. Spelling and punctuation follow present-day American usage; the sentences, the paragraphs and the voice are the author’s, word for word.

It was written in another era and may carry attitudes a reader today will find dated. They are kept for the sake of the work and do not reflect the views of this house.

The edition
Format
Ebook
Extent
about 192 pages
Reading time
about 4 hours
Illustrations
Full-page plates, credited
Text
Complete, unabridged
Language
en
This edition
2026
ISBN
9785486545474
The plates

60 paintings are bound into this edition

Six of them are shown here, taken from the volume itself. Each is reproduced full page and named with its painter and year.

Autumn, Helmer Osslund
Autumn Helmer Osslund 1907
The Cliffs of the Loue, Gustave Courbet
The Cliffs of the Loue Gustave Courbet 1872
Dying Trees, August Cappelen
Dying Trees August Cappelen 1848
Marshland, Jules Dupré
Marshland Jules Dupré 1870
Genesee Scenery, Thomas Cole
Genesee Scenery Thomas Cole 1847
Landscape with Rainbow, Robert Seldon Duncanson
Landscape with Rainbow Robert Seldon Duncanson 1859
The setting

A page from this edition

Not a mock-up: this page is taken from the finished volume. The ornament above the chapter belongs to its shelf and to no other, the opening letter is set as a drop capital, and the plate below carries the name of the painter and the year.

A page of Nomads of the North as set for this edition
The opening of a chapter
A page of Nomads of the North as set for this edition
A page where a plate falls

Both photographed from the finished volume.

Colophon

Nomads of the North, issued in this edition by Aeneas Press in 2026 on the Adventure & the Sea shelf. Newly set, with the ornament of its series above each chapter and a drop capital on the opening page. Illustrated with full-page plates, each named with its painter.

Published as an ebook and not issued in print by this house; it carries one ISBN, 9785486545474, and is supplied worldwide. This edition — its setting, its ornament, its cover art, and the selection and attribution of its plates — © 2026 Aeneas Press.

Before you buy

Questions readers ask

Is this the whole of Nomads of the North?
Yes — complete and unabridged. Nothing is cut, condensed or paraphrased. This is the book, not a summary of it.
What exactly did you change?
The spelling and the punctuation follow present-day American usage. James Oliver Curwood's sentences are untouched — same words, same order, same rhythm.
Are the pictures really in the book?
Yes. The edition carries full-page plates bound into the text, each one named with its painter and the year it was made. Six of them are shown on this page.
How long is it?
About 192 pages, which is roughly about 4 hours of reading.
What do I actually get?
An illustrated ebook with its own ISBN, sold worldwide. One file, yours to keep, readable on any device.
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