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"Captain David Grief, South Pacific tycoon, owned plantations and trading stations from New Guinea to Samoa, pearling fisheries in the Paumotus, and rubber acreages in the Louisiades. His own vessels recruited contract labor, and he operate three steamers on ocean runs. He had come to the South Seas at the age of twenty and, blessed with a blond skin impervious to tropical rays, became browner through two decades as a true 'son of the sun.' At forty years of age, he looked no more than thirty. HIs manifold enterprises flourished. His was the golden touch; but he played the South Sea game not for the gold but for the game's sake and the daring life of the island rover. Herein appear long tales of danger and adventure ... told in Jack London's most graphic and colorful style"--Back cover.
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Adirondack stories
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"Several of the characters in these stories, as well as much of the material and nearly all the locales, were come by in the summer of 1931 during a stay in the Adirondack Mountains in the company of Nathanael West. For some while prior, he'd been trying to complete the revision of his second book, 'Miss Lonelyhearts,' and I'd been trying to write 'The Water Wheel,' my first. ... On our return to New York in September, West invited me to put up at the Sutton--as a non-paying guest, of course--and of course I accepted. I remained there for the better part of six months, during which time the first five of these stories were written. Under my then name, Julian L. Shapiro, they were published in 1932, three of them in Pagany and two in Contact, and apart from a few descriptive pieces that had appeared in the Paris vanguard magazines Tambour and The New Review, they're my earliest printed work. ... I have taken another name since those days, but I've not seen fit to tamper with the stories. ... I have changed after forty-five years, I suppose ... but the stories have not been touched"--From foreword, dated 6 April 1976.
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