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 the voyage itself. These entertaining pieces, collected together into the book he called The Cruise of the Snark, reveal London?s indefatigable spirit and love of adventure at sea and among the Pacific islands.

Includes introduction and notes, as well as London's delightful sea pieces "That Dead Men Rise Up Never" and "The Joy of Small-Boat Sailing".

288 pages

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	April 27, 2004
ISBN13	9780142437735
Publishers	Penguin Publishing Group
Pages	288
Dimensions	130 × 196 × 197 mm · 235 g
Language	English

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