Robert Service Looking down on Nightmute, Alaska My grandfather introduced me to my favorite poet. A British Canadian (I know, it fits well with my Canadian Fetish) poet who lived during overlap of the 20th century. Robert Service fell in love with his visits to the Alaskan Yukon and Canadian Arctic. His book of Yukon gold rush style poetry became a staple reprinted in East Coast newspapers. After WWI, when Service retreated to the Yukon to forget his time on the Eastern Front during the First World War. His poetry often speaks to the harsh reality and the misfit characters that inhabited the Yukon on their quest for gold and fortune. In almost all of his poems, the quest lies unfinished at the untimely death of the main character. If you have not had the wonderful experience of exploring his works, doing so will provide understanding of how the Yukon lay tucked away in the back of my mind waiting for an adventure to match. A often romanticized idea of manliness interacting