Jack London memoirs

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• "The Road" (1907) - Jack London’s vivid account of his hobo days

  6 March 2019 by Jack London

  Where Jack London recounts in a series of striking sketches his experiences as a juvenile hobo roaming throughout the U.S.A and Canada on freight trains for more than a year, written largely in the jargon of the army of tramps young and old that were such a conspicuous aspect of the American (...)

• "Through the South Seas with Jack London" by Martin Johnson

  12 December 2018 by Martin Johnson

  At the peak of his writing career in 1906, after having written much of his most outstanding work, Jack London decided - very much encouraged by his wife Charmian London - to build the sturdy little 45-foot (13.7 meters) two-masted schooner The Snark and to embark with his small crew of 6, (...)

• Jack London’s in-depth exploration of the (shocking) living conditions in London’s East End: "The People of the Abyss" (1903)

  2 December 2016 by Jack London

  In 1902 the 25-year-old Jack London, who was already a veteran of a year of vagrant "hobo" wanderings around the American continent when he was 17, of a year of sailing on a fishing boat in the Far Pacific when he was 18, and of a year in the Klondike gold-rush in Canada’s Far North when he was (...)