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The mutiny of the Elsinore : sea gangsters ... rise against their officers on a Cape Horn windjammer
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The mutiny of the Elsinore : sea gangsters ... rise against their officers on a Cape Horn windjammer
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"Voyage around Cape Horn and into the broad Pacific with the lone passenger aboard a windjamming cargo vessel, in company with an ailing captain, his mettlesome daughter, a bucko first mate, and a crew of unruly sweepings from the world's toughest seaports! Based on a similar voyage made by Jack London and his wife Charmian in 1912, the author here indulges to the full his lifelong love of seafaring and his talent for dramatic portrayals of stalwart characters overcoming threatening odds"--Back cover.
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John Barleycorn, or, Alcoholic memoirs
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"Written during the worst of London's alcoholic periods, 'John Barleycorn' is a uniquely candid and courageous autobiographical memoir that beings with a recounting of London's first taste of alcohol, his first experience being drunk, and his first hangover--all at the age of five. London went on to 'earn his manhood spurs' through hard drinking at the steamy waterfront bars on the San Francisco Bay. Claiming never to have acquired a taste for the stuff, London stresses the important role of the saloon in cultivating alcoholism in young men. He brings to vivid life the romantic allure of a place full of sailors with names like Whisky Bob, whose stories of 'round-the-world journeys, barroom brawls, and dangerous sea adventures mingled with the 'camaraderie of drink.' At once a highly personal work of intense emotional power and an unsparing social commentary on the evils of drink, this masterpiece of autobiographical literature first stunned a world audience in 1913, and today continues to strike a resounding contemporary note"--Back cover.
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Captain David Grief : eight stories
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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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