Through The South Seas With Jack London
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Through the South Seas with Jack London
Author | : Martin Johnson |
Publisher | : anboco |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2016-08-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3736411014 |
Accounts of dare-devil exploits have always been read with deep interest. One of the salient features of human nature is curiosity, a desire to know what is being said and done outside the narrow limits of one's individual experience, or, in other words, to learn the modes of life of persons whose environment and problems are different from one's own environment and problems. To this natural curiosity, the book of travel is particularly gratifying. But when we add to the fact that such a narrative treats of races and conditions almost unknown to the inhabitants of civilised countries the consideration that those voyageurs to whom the adventures fell are men and women already prominently before the public, and so deserving of that public's special confidence, the interest and value of such a work will be seen to be extraordinarily enhanced. The cruise of Jack London's forty-five-foot ketch Snark was followed eagerly by the press of several continents. The Snark alone was enough to compel attention, but the Snark sailed by Jack London, a writer of world-wide celebrity, was irresistible. The venture caught the world's fancy. Periodicals devoted columns to a discussion of the Snark and her builder, and to the daring crew who sailed the tiny craft for two years through the South Seas. When it became known that such a voyage was in contemplation, hundreds of persons wrote to Mr. London, begging that he allow them to accompany him. On the other extreme, they were legion who threw up their hands in horror at the mere suggestion....
Jack London in the South Seas
Author | : Arthur Grove Day |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Americans |
ISBN | : |
A biography of the well-known author that concentrates on his 1907-1909 South Sea voyage.
South Sea Tales
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2022-08-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"South Sea Tales" is a collection of short stories by Jack London, thematically set around the South Pacific. These are the stories of primitive human lusts and hunger, similar to the cold north stories. The stories tell about missionaries and cannibals in Fiji, colonial brutality and race relations in the South Seas, and the issues a human faces in the extreme weather conditions.
Jack London's Tales of Cannibals and Headhunters
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780826337917 |
"Jack London's Tales of Cannibals and Headhunters" is set in the romantic and dangerous South Seas and illustrated with the original artwork and several maps.
Through the Southseas with Jack London
Author | : Martin Elmer Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Islands of the Pacific |
ISBN | : |
South Sea Tales
Author | : Robert Louis Stevenson |
Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2008-05-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0199536082 |
Roslyn Jolly is Lecturer in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Henry James: History, Narrative, Fiction (OUP, 1993).