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1) The sea wolf
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Series
Language
English
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A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas. The Sea Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. The vivid story of a gentleman scholar's rescue and subsequent ordeal at the hands of a hunting schooner's brutal captain and devious crew. It remains one of Jack London's finest achievements.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 6
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Buck is smuggled from his beloved home in the Santa Clara Valley and forced to work as a sled-dog in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon, he must forget the long, lazy Californian days and face a life of constant toil and danger under the whip of cruel or inept masters, where survival itself must be fought for. But with his primal instincts stirred, how long can Buck resist the call of the wild? Set at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush, The...
Author
Publisher
Castle Books
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Introduction -- White Fang -- Son of the wolf -- In the forests of the North -- The man of forty-mile -- In a far country -- The wisdom of the trail -- The God of his fathers -- All gold canon -- The sea-wolf -- The cruise of the dazzler -- To repel boarders -- The man with the gash -- The master of mystery -- The great interrogation -- Grit of women--The wife of a king -- The law of life -- The white silence -- The call of the wild.
Author
Series
Signet classic volume CP217
Language
English
Description
An epic of action-filled excitement. Rescued from drowning, a pampered gentleman awakes in a special kind of hell. He's aboard the Ghost, a sealing schooner outbound for months of hunting. Wolf Larson, the devilish captain, a fiendish crew, the cruel sea, and unlikely love make this tale immortal.
6) The sea wolf
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The tyrannical captain of a freighter would rather 'reign in Hell than serve in Heaven' in this classic drama.
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
Two novellas: "The Call of the Wild" in which a dog is forcibly taken to Alaska where he eventually becomes leader of a wolf pack and "The Cruise of the Dazzler" which relates the adventures of a young boy who runs away to sea.
11) Pirates
Series
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corporation
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Four movies about pirate adventure.
12) Jack London
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Series
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Jack London (1876-1916) by any standards lived a life of excess. London's exuberant energies propelled him out of the working class to become a world-famous writer by the age of 27, after stints as a child labourer, an oyster pirate, a Pacific seaman and a convict. He wrote extensively about his travels to Japan, the Yukon, the slums of London's East End, Korea, Hawaii and the South Seas. The author of classics such as The Call of the Wild and The...