John was raised in Dawson City, Yukon, where the Klondike Gold Rush was his backyard. He worked as a journalist, sewer rat, heavy equipment operator, prospector, public relations director, theatre owner and financial planner before retiring to become a full-time writer.John Firth is our own contemporary Yukon storyteller.  Firth’s books profile a wide variety of subject matter from Racing the Ghosts of the Klondike Rush, to the one and only Jamaican dog sled entry in the 2009 Yukon Quest, and supported Ramesh Ferris in his “Better than a Cure” journey, when Ferris hand-cycled 7,000 kilometres across Canada.