Jack London

by Kenneth K. Brandt

Book Overview

Recounting his 1897-98 Klondike Gold Rush experience Jack London stated: "It was in the Klondike I found myself. There nobody talks. Everybody thinks. There you get your perspective. I got mine." This study explores how London's Northland odyssey - along with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, a hardscrabble youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, and an acute craving for social justice - launched the literary career of one of America's most dynamic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746312970
• ISBN13: 9780746312971
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"