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"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.
Author : Jack London
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release : 2006
Category : 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.
Author : Jack Jack London
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 35,2 MB
Release : 2018-04-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781717278463
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist, social-activist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. At his peak, he was the highest paid and the most popular of all living writers. Because of early financial difficulties, he was largely self educated past grammar school.
Author : Jack London
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1528787420
“South Sea Tales” is a fantastic 1911 collection of short stories written by Jack London, most of which centre around island communities or life abroad a ship. The stories include: “The House of Mapuhi”, “The Whale Tooth”, “Mauki”, “'Yah! Yah! Yah!'”, “The Heathen”, “The Terrible Solomons”, “The Inevitable White Man”, and “The Seef of McCoy”. This volume will not disappoint lovers of the short story form, and it constitutes a must-read for fans and collectors of London's seminal work. John Griffith London (1876 – 1916), commonly known as Jack London, was an American journalist, social activist, and novelist. He was an early pioneer of commercial magazine fiction, becoming one of the first globally-famous celebrity writers who were able to earn a large amount of money from their writing. London is famous for his contributions to early science fiction and also notably belonged to "The Crowd", a literary group an Francisco known for its radical members and ideas. Other notable works by this author include: “Martin Eden” (1909), “The Kempton-Wace Letters” (1903), and “The Call of the Wild” (1903). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Author : Jack London
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 2017-08-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781974677023
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist, social-activist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. At his peak, he was the highest paid and the most popular of all living writers. Because of early financial difficulties, he was largely self educated past grammar school.
Author : London J.
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 5521081666
Jack London was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "South Sea Tales" is a collection of short stories, most of them are set aboard a ship or in island communities. "The Call of the Wild" is a short adventure novel set in Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush. The story starts when someone steals the main character, a dog Buck of a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, from his home and sells him into service as a sled dog in Alaska. "Tales of the Fish Patrol" is a collection of stories drawn from author's own experiences and memories of the days as a teenager aboard the fishing boats of San Francisco Bay.
Author : Stephen Brennan
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1626365032
An exciting collection of dangerous adventures and groundbreaking exploration, The Best Adventure and Exploration Stories Ever Told compiles the works of authors from all over the world and from the very distant past to recent eras. Popular and well-known authors such as Herman Melville, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, and Jules Verne are featured, as well as Homer’s mythic tales and Iceland’s mesmerizing sagas from the tenth and eleventh centuries. Nonfiction stories add a riveting, realistic aspect of adventure to the collection. These include accounts from Shackleton’s polar expeditions; early American stories from the famed Lewis and Clark; spellbinding accounts of Magellan’s perilous expeditions to uncharted areas; and many more no less exciting. The stories compiled in this priceless collection represent a thousand years of adventure, expedition, danger, and discovery. They inspire as well as awe, and readers will find themselves with an urge to follow in these great adventurers’ footsteps. Ancient and modern escapades placed side by side make this book perfect for all who crave the adrenaline of adventure and discovery. This title is part of Skyhorse’s respected The Best Stories series, each of which is selectively edited and handcrafted to include only the best stories from the best writers of the genre.
Author : Jack London
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486153576
Five exciting tales that epitomize Jack London's mastery of the adventure story: "The White Silence," "In a Far Country," "An Odyssey of the North," "The Seed of McCoy," and "The Mexican." Publisher's Note.
Author : Jack London
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Oceania
ISBN :
Author : Jack London
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1596 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8026876121
This carefully crafted ebook: "TALES OF SEAS & SAILORS” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Cruise of the Dazzler The Sea-Wolf Adventure A Son of the Sun The Mutiny of the Elsinore The Cruise of the Snark Tales of the Fish Patrol White and Yellow The King of the Greeks A Raid on the Oyster Pirates The Siege of the "Lancashire Queen" Charley's Coup Demetrios Contos Yellow Handkerchief South Sea Tales The House of Mapuhi The Whale Tooth Mauki "Yah! Yah! Yah!" The Heathen The Terrible Solomons The Inevitable White Man The Seed of McCoy Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. His amazing life experience also includes being an oyster pirate, railroad hobo, gold prospector, sailor, war correspondent and much more. He wrote adventure novels & sea tales, stories of the Gold Rush, tales of the South Pacific and the San Francisco Bay area - most of which were based on or inspired by his own life experiences.
Author : Jack London
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1596 pages
File Size : 10,25 MB
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8027221218
Musaicum Books presents to you "The Greatest Sea Tales of Jack London" formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Contents: The Cruise of the Dazzler The Sea-Wolf Adventure A Son of the Sun The Mutiny of the Elsinore The Cruise of the Snark Tales of the Fish Patrol White and Yellow The King of the Greeks A Raid on the Oyster Pirates The Siege of the "Lancashire Queen" Charley's Coup Demetrios Contos Yellow Handkerchief South Sea Tales The House of Mapuhi The Whale Tooth Mauki "Yah! Yah! Yah!" The Heathen The Terrible Solomons The Inevitable White Man The Seed of McCoy Jack London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. His amazing life experience also includes being an oyster pirate, railroad hobo, gold prospector, sailor, war correspondent and much more. He wrote adventure novels & sea tales, stories of the Gold Rush, tales of the South Pacific and the San Francisco Bay area - most of which were based on or inspired by his own life experiences.