Jack London

South Sea Tales Annotated Jack London

South Sea Tales (1911) is a collection of short stories written by Jack London. Most stories are set in island communities, like those of Hawaii, or are set aboard a ship . Jack London was an American writer and social activist best known for the popular classics The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf. The powerful tales gathered here vividly evoke the turn-of-the-century colonial Pacific and its capricious tropical landscape, while also trenchantly observing the delicate interplay between imperialism and the exotic. And as Tony Hurwitz asserts in his Introduction . When London's stories click, we are utterly there, at the edge of the world and the limit of human endurance.