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"It reared its black, forbidding head like some huge monster rising from the deep." A typhoon rages off the coast of Japan -- and off the page, in Jack London's first story, published at age 17. In these vivid stories, London pits nature at its most extreme against men who must struggle violently to survive. Whether describing ore cables strung across a valley in Sacramento gold-mine territory or the straining boards of ships battered by gales, London's eye for realism keeps his dramatic tales vivid and fresh -- even now, nearly a century after his death.

Stories of Ships and the Sea by Jack London - Standard Print Edition - SHORT STORY COLLECTION: CHRIS FARRINGTON: ABLE SEAMAN - THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI - THE WHALE TOOTH – MAUKI - "YAH! YAH! YAH!" - THE HEATHEN - THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS -THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN - THE SEED OF MCCOY - WHITE AND YELLOW - THE KING OF THE GREEKS - A RAID ON THE OYSTER PIRATES - THE SIEGE OF THE "LANCASHIRE QUEEN" - CHARLEY'S COUP - DEMETRIOS CONTOS - YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF - MAKE WESTING - TYPHOON OFF THE COAST OF JAPAN - THE LOST POACHER - THE BANKS OF THE SACRAMENTO - TO REPEL BOARDERS - AN ADVENTURE IN THE UPPER SEA - IN YEDDO BAY - THE WATER BABY - THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT"

Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909). Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $75,000 today. His career was well under way. Among his famous works are: Children of the Frost (1902), The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Game (1905), White Fang (1906), The Road (1907), Before Adam (1907), Adventure (1911), and The Scarlet Plague (1912).

In these vivid stories, London pits nature at its most extreme against men who must struggle violently to survive. Whether describing ore cables strung across a valley in Sacramento gold-mine territory or the straining boards of ships battered by gales, London's eye for realism keeps his dramatic tales vivid and fresh -- even now, nearly a century after his death.

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