Robert W. Service





Robert W. Service

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born
January 16, 1874 in Preston, The United Kingdom

died
September 11, 1958

gender
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Service was born into a Scottish family while they were living in Preston, England. He was schooled in Scotland, attending Hillhead High School in Glasgow. He moved to Canada at the age of 21 when he gave up his job working in a Glasgow bank, and traveled to Vancouver Island, British Columbia with his Buffalo Bill outfit and dreams of becoming a cowboy.

He drifted around western North America, taking and quitting a series of jobs. Hired by the Canadian Bank of Commerce, he worked in a number of its branches before being posted to the branch in Whitehorse (not Dawson) in the Yukon Territory in 1904, six years after the Klondike Gold Rush. Inspired by the vast beauty of the Yukon wilderness, Service began writing poetry about the things he sa...more


Average rating: 4.26 · 895 ratings · 125 reviews · 58 distinct works
Collected Poems
4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 1963 — 5 editions
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The Cremation of Sam McGee
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions
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The Best of Robert Service
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1976 — 11 editions
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The Spell of the Yukon
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 1907 — 22 editions
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Best Tales of the Yukon
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions
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Songs of a Sourdough
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1940 — 13 editions
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Rhymes of a Rolling Stone
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2002 — 17 editions
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Yukon Poems of Robert W. Se...
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1967 — 2 editions
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Ballads of a Bohemian
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2004 — 20 editions
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More books by Robert W. Service…
“There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't sit still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.”
Robert W. Service

“The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire”
Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone

“Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Robert W. Service

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