Jack London on Adventure
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<div>Jack London was a writer, but more than that, he was an adventurer who wrote about his adventures. Growing up working class in San Francisco, London diligently scrounged out a life riding trains, pirating oysters, working on a sealing ship, and working at a cannery, all the while using his free time to hole up in libraries reading novels and travel books. A harrowing voyage aboard a sealing ship, where he and the crew were almost killed by a typhoon, convinced him to start writing stories.<br><br>After a brief time on the east coast and a stint in the Yukon mining for gold, London returned to California. He published his stories in the<i>Overland Monthly</i>, which prompted him to become more disciplined in his writing. He published numerous novels over the years, including<i>The Call of the Wild</i>, a story about a dog who becomes a sled dog in the Yukon,<i>The People of the Abyss</i>, which heavily critiqued capitalism, and <i>John Barleycorn</i>, a memoiristic novel that detailed his struggles with alcoholism.<br><br>With quotes from the array of Jack London’s writings, readers will get a sense of his life as well as a keen yearning for undertaking their own adventures.<br></div>
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