This book is the second part of the two-volume edition , with the fullest possible representation of Jack London's work on fascinating journeys, risky adventures and severe trials , which the author and then his heroes experienced in the snowy expanses of the American North. From the string of their own impressions and stories told by the old-timers of this region, on the pages of the book there is a special, unique in its silent and ascetic beauty world - a world of dazzling whiteness of snow and blinding the mind of gold fever. A world of treacherous-unreliable ice floes and toros and cowardice, cowardice, and betrayal, inevitable in the face of doom, a world of silent-magnificence mountains, and the unbending greatness of the human spirit. A world where man and nature again and again test each other for strength and where, contrary to the icy breath of death, people and animals are constantly moving forward, drawn by an ineradicable love for life. The book includes the novel “Time does not wait” (1910) and three collections of stories published in 1907-1912, as well as stories and essays from other books of the writer and various periodicals.