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The Cruise of the Snark consists of these chapters: The Inconceivable and Monstrous; Adventure; Finding One’s Way About; The First Landfall; A Royal Sport; The Lepers of Molokai; The House of the Sun; A Pacific Traverse; Typee; The Nature Man; The High Seat of Abundance; The Stone-fishing of Bora Bora; The Amateur Navigator; Cruising in the Solomons; Bȇche de Mer English; and The Amateur M.D. John Griffith “Jack” London born John Griffith Chaney was a U.S. author, journalist, and social activist. A forerunner in the earlier expanding world of industrial magazine fiction, he was among the first fiction novelists to acquire international celebrity and an enormous success through only his fiction, as well as science fiction. A few of his best known novels are The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both situated in the Klondike Gold Rush and the short tales To Build a Fire, An Odyssey of the North, and Love of Life. He also authored of the South Pacific in tales including The Pearls of Parlay and The Heathen, and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. Jack joined the extremist literary group The Crowd in San Francisco and a devoted promoter of unionization, socialism, and the rights of laborers. He composed numerous formidable writings about these matters, like his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction depiction The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes. Jack London’s mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Marshall Wellman was derived from Thomas Wellman, one of the first Puritan settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Flora left Ohio and settled in the Pacific coast when her father re-wedded after the death of her mother. In San Francisco, Flora became a music instructor and spiritualist, asserting to channel the soul of a Sauk chief, Black Hawk.
Product ID: 9781776727018
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