The Cruise of the Snark
$35.05
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
27 April 2004
Summary
Inspired by the examples of his heroes Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Joshua Slocum, Jack London determined to sail around the world. In April 1907 he sailed from San Francisco in the forty-five-foot ketch Snark, with his wife, Charmian, a skeleton crew, and his writing to keep him company. Beset by seasickness and tropical disease, London wrote incessantly—not only his major autobiographical novel Martin Eden and numerous short stories, but also a series of sketches recording t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780142437735 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0142437735 |
| Author: | Jack London, R.D. Madison |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 27 April 2004 |
| Weight: | 232g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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Jack London
John Griffith “Jack” London (1876-1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, as well as the short stories “To Build a Fire”, “An Odyssey of the North”, and “Love of Life”.
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