"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not
waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time,"
writes Jack London, accurately proclaiming the very ingredients of
his full, passionate lifestyle.
Bearing a name that is now synonymous with adventure, London seemed
to fear nothing, constantly stretching his comfortable
limits--composing his classic short stories at one thousand words
every morning, sailing across the Pacific Ocean on voyages both for
pleasure and profit, horseback riding, continual entertaining at
home in Glen Ellen, California, barroom socializing and debating,
marrying twice, frequent lecturing, and operating a ranch--all with
about four or five hours of sleep a night to make it possible.
Rising from the low-income factory-worker community of West
Oakland, California, London's romantic writings on adventure found
at sea, or in Alaska, or in the fields and factories of California
appealed to the everyman--millions of readers around the world.
Here, in" Jack London on Adventure," are excerpts from his
well-loved works, which were the result of his restless quest for
experience, combined with "his observations of unalterable facts,"
as editor Terry Mort writes in his introduction. Lose yourself in
the sheer unending quietude of the North in" "White Fang"" and
""The White Silence""; enter into the listless, worried mind of an
elder in ""The League of the Old Men""; prepare to sail around the
world for seven years' time alongside the author-turned-captain,
himself, in ""The Cruise of the Snark,"" where the famed boat is
built with each dollar earned from London's writings; and peek into
the observations of seasoned sailors and the foolish passengers
they carry in ""The Sea Wolf."" Mort ends with the statement, "A
complex man and artist is hard to capture in a single image," but
in terms of the unlikely and unknown, London's works here capture
the thrill that burned in him so brightly.
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