From one of America's great writers, this delightful collection -
the first of its kind - contains twenty-three adventurous tales set
in the San Francisco Bay Area. If San Francisco has captured the
world's imagination through the hardboiled stories of Dashiell
Hammett, the prose and poetry of Jack Kerouac and his fellow Beats,
through Orson Welles' Lady From Shanghai and Alfred Hitchcock's
Vertigo, it is as a romantic city of vast suspension bridges and
foggy back alleys, not as the wild west of Jack London's day.
Pre-quake San Francisco was a tough town, and Jack London - hobo,
sailor, oyster pirate, hard drinker - was pretty tough, too.
Although famous for his stories of the Klondike and the Pacific,
London wrote extensively about his home base. This collection
contains such classic stories as 'The Apostate' and 'South of the
Slot' as well as extracts from John Barleycorn and The Sea-Wolf.
The overlooked 1905 story cycle Tales of the Fish Patrol is
included in its entirety. London's vivid eyewitness report of the
Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire - which destroyed forever the old
city - stands as a fitting epilogue. Discover a vanished San
Francisco in these wonderful stories of Jack London.
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