The Cruise of the Snark
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Introduction
Dedication
CHAPTER I - FOREWORD
CHAPTER II - THE INCONCEIVABLE AND MONSTROUS
CHAPTER III - ADVENTURE
CHAPTER IV - FINDING ONE’S WAY ABOUT
CHAPTER V - THE FIRST LANDFALL
CHAPTER VI - A ROYAL SPORT
CHAPTER VII - THE LEPERS OF MOLOKAI
CHAPTER VIII - THE HOUSE OF THE SUN
CHAPTER IX - A PACIFIC TRAVERSE
CHAPTER X - TYPEE
CHAPTER XI - THE NATURE MAN
CHAPTER XII - THE HIGH SEAT OF ABUNDANCE
CHAPTER XIII - THE STONE-FISHING OF BORA BORA
CHAPTER XIV - THE AMATEUR NAVIGATOR
CHAPTER XV - CRUISING IN THE SOLOMONS
CHAPTER XVI - BÊCHE DE MER ENGLISH
CHAPTER XVII - THE AMATEUR M.D.
BACKWORD
Notes on The Cruise of the Snark
APPENDICES
THE CRUISE OF THE SNARK
JACK LONDON—his real name was John Griffith London—had a wild and colorful youth on the waterfront of San Francisco, his native city. Born in 1876, he left school at the age of fourteen and worked in a cannery. By the time he was sixteen he had been both an oyster pirate and a member of the Fish Patrol in San Francisco Bay and he later wrote about his experiences in The Cruise of the Dazzler (1902) and Tales of the Fish Patrol (1905). In 1893 he joined a sealing cruise which took him as far as Japan. Returning to the United States, he travelled throughout the country. He was determined to become a writer and read voraciously. After a brief period of study at the University of California he joined the gold rush to the Klondike in 1897. He returned to San Francisco the following year and wrote about his experiences. His short stories of the Yukon were published in Overland Monthly (1898) and the Atlantic Monthly (1899), and in 1900 his first collection, The Son of the Wolf, appeared, bringing him national fame. In 1902 he went to London, where he studied the slum conditions of the East End. He wrote about his experiences in The People of the Abyss (1903). His life was exciting and eventful. There were sailing voyages to the Caribbean and the South Seas. He reported on the Russo-Japanese War for the Hearst papers and gave lecture tours. A prolific writer, he published an enormous number of stories and novels. Besides several collections of short stories, including Love of Life (1907), Lost Face (1910), and On the Makaloa Mat (1919), he wrote many novels, including The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea-Wolf (1904), The Game (1905), White Fang (1906), Martin Eden (1909), John Barleycorn (1913), and Jerry of the Islands (1917). Jack London died in 1916, at his home in California.
R. D. MADISON is professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He has edited several volumes of military and naval history, including Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s Army Life in a Black Regiment and Other Writings (Penguin Classics, 1997) and William Bligh and Edward Christian’s The Bounty Mutiny (Penguin Classics, 2001).
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First published in the United States of America by The Macmillan Company 1911
This edition with an introduction by R. D. Madison published in Penguin Books 2004
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The cruise of the Snark / Jack London ; introduction and notes by R. D. Madison.
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