Author: Jack London
Year: 1911
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Classic, Short Stories, Adventure, Free books, Travel
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9780375759291
9781453722053
0375759298
145372205X |
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Like the celebrated
, the stories that comprise
derive their intensity from the author's own far-flung adventures, conveying an impassioned, unsparing vision borne only of experience. The powerful tales gathered here vividly evoke the turn-of-the-century colonial Pacific and its capricious tropical landscape, while also trenchantly observing the delicate interplay between imperialism and the exotic. And as Tony Horwitz asserts in his Introduction, "When London's stories click, we are utterly there, at the edge of the world and the limit of human endurance."
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