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John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney,January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author, 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. 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. London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.

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Excerpt from Adventure By stooping close, still on man-back, he man aged to pass through the low doorway. He took a small bottle from his follower and sniffed strong ammonia to clear his senses for the ordeal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Adventure is a novel by Jack London released in 1911 by The Macmillan Company. The novel explores the themes of domination of one people over the others, the differences between races, emancipation of women, and the strength of the human spirit, strengthened in a struggle with the nature and society. Odin’s Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind’s literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.

He was a very sick white man. He rode pick-a-back on a woolly- headed, black-skinnedsavage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and stretched until one had torn out,while the other carried a circular block of carved wood three inches in diameter. The tornear had been pierced again, but this time not so ambitiously, for the hole accommodatedno more than a short clay pipe. The man-horse was greasy and dirty, and naked save foran exceedingly narrow and dirty loin-cloth; but the white man clung to him closely anddesperately. At times, from weakness, his head drooped and rested on the woolly pate. Atother times he lifted his head and stared with swimming eyes at the cocoanut palms thatreeled and swung in the shimmering heat. He was clad in a thin undershirt and a strip ofcotton cloth, that wrapped about his waist and descended to his knees. On his head was abattered Stetson, known to the trade as a Baden-Powell. About his middle was strapped abelt, which carried a large-calibred automatic pistol and several spare clips, loaded andready for quick work.

Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California. After working in the Klondike, London returned home and began publishing stories. His novels, including The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Martin Eden, placed London among the most popular American authors of his time. London, who was also a journalist and an outspoken socialist, died in 1916.