Captain Alex MacLean: Jack London's Sea Wolf

by Don Macgillivray

Book Overview

Alex MacLean was the inspiration for the title character in Jack London's bestselling novel The Sea-Wolf . Originally from Cape Breton, MacLean sailed to the Pacific side of North America when he was twenty-one and worked there for thirty-five years as a sailor and sealer. His achievements and escapades while in the Victoria fleet in the 1880s laid the foundation for his status as a folk hero. But this biography reveals more than the construction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774814713
• ISBN13: 9780774814713
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 388 Pages