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Captain David Grief : eight stories
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- Description
- "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.
- Publication date
- [1987?]
- Call number
- 493754 v.66
- Creator
- London, Jack (1876-1916)
