The Cruise of the Snark

In 1906, Jack London began work on a boat capable of sailing the Pacific. The Snark, a 45 foot yacht with two sails and a small engine, set sail in 1907, taking London, his wife, and a small crew from San Francisco to the Solomon Islands, an adventure that served as source material for his travelogue The Cruise of the Snark.

About the author

John Griffith "Jack" London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.

Product details

• Authors: Jack London
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781513270166
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-7016-6
• No. of pages: 186
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Mint Editions; Mint Editions—Travel Narratives; Mint Editions (Travel Narratives)
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Travel & holiday guides, Memoirs, TRAVEL / Australia & Oceania, Travel writing, Travel and holiday guides, Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands, Australasia, Oceania & other land areas