Jack London memoirs

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

  6 March 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 - Part I

  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, (...)

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

  12 December 2018 by Martin Johnson

  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  CHAPTER IV - THE END OF THE VOYAGE POSTSCRIPT
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  CHAPTER XIV - THE END OF THE VOYAGE
  At the dock, I got my luggage and Jack’s ashore and into a van, while Jack and Mrs. London went on up to the Metropole Hotel. After the luggage had passed the customs, I left it with (...)

• Jack London’s in-depth exploration of the (shocking) living conditions in London’s East End: "The People of the Abyss" (1902)

  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 (...)