Jack London
1) The sea wolf
Author
Language
English
Description
"The monstrous sealing-ship captain Wolf Larsen, his animal-like brother Death Larsen, the aristocrat Van Weyden, [and] the poet Maude Brewster confront one another in a struggle for supremacy against a backdrop of physical hunting, [including] the hunting down and killing of seals with clubs and guns, the hunting down and pressing into service of boat crews, and even the hunting of men by seals."--Back cover.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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,...
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this film is the story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team, and later its leader, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in...