Cecelia Tichi;Cecelia Tichi
Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen Nor...
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2015
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Berkove, Lawrence I.;Berkove, Lawrence I.
Jack London combines biographical material with original essays comparing his career t...
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2012
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MAY, VONN MARIE
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Chronology of Jack London's Life.
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Chronology of Jack London's Life.
Critical Insights: Jack London. 2011, p365-368. 4p.
A timeline is presented of significant events that happened during American author Jack London's life, such as the birth of his daughter Joan on January 15, 1901, the publication of the book "The Call of the Wild" in 1903, and the publication of the books "The Scarlet Plague" and "The Star Rover" in 1915.
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Biography of Jack London .
Labor, Earle;Berkove, Lawrence I.
A biography of the American author Jack London (1876-1916) is presented. His childhood...
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Biography of Jack London .
Critical Insights: Jack London. 2011, p25-33. 9p.
A biography of the American author Jack London (1876 -1916 ) is presented. His childhood and early life in San Francisco, California are examined, and his decision to join Kelley's Army, a movement protesting the country's economic conditions, is described. London's participation in the Klondike gold rush in 1897 and rise to popularity with the publication of his story "To the Man on Trail" are also touched on along with his ensuing literary fame and death from kidney failure in 1916 .
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Hamilton, David Mike
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Jan2010, p1-6. 6p.
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A biographical essay about Jack London, with brief critical analysis of major works. [...
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Jan2010, p1-6. 6p.
A biographical essay about Jack London , with brief critical analysis of major works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Rollyson, Carl
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Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century. Jan2000, p1-3. 3p.
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London was one of the main exponents of American literary naturalism, a popular writer...
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Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century. Jan2000, p1-3. 3p.
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Dirda, Michael
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Virginia Quarterly Review. Fall2013, Vol. 89 Issue 4, p257-262. 6p.
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The article reviews the book "Jack London: An American Life" by Earle Labor.
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Virginia Quarterly Review. Fall2013, Vol. 89 Issue 4, p257-262. 6p.
The article reviews the book "Jack London : An American Life" by Earle Labor.
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Jack London: An American Life (Book) - Labor, Earle, 1928-2022 - London, Jack, 1876-1916 - NonfictionContent provider:
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Hamilton, David Mike;Marwick, Karen M. Cleveland;;;Hamilton, David Mike;Mar...
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: American Writers; January 2012, p1-1
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A biographical essay about Jack London, with brief critical analysis of major short fi...
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Critical Survey of Short Fiction: American Writers; January 2012, p1-1
A biographical essay about Jack London , with brief critical analysis of major short fiction works.
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Quinn, Edna B.
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Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition. Jan2003, p1-2. 2p.
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A biographical essay about Jack London. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition. Jan2003, p1-2. 2p.
A biographical essay about Jack London . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Realism without falsity.
Hart, Jeffrey;Hart, Jeffrey
Australian Travellers in the South Seas
Nicholas Halter;Nicholas Halter
This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islan...
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Australian Travellers in the South Seas
2021
This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It offers a range of valuable insights into continuities and changes in Australian regional perspectives, showing that ordinary Australians were more closely connected to the Pacific Islands than has previously been acknowledged. Addressing the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, this cultural history probes issues of nation and empire, race and science, commerce and tourism by focusing on significant episodes and encounters in history. This is a foundational text for future studies of Australia's relations with the Pacific, and histories of travel generally.
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Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2021
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post-industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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A Curious History of Sex
Kate Lister;Kate Lister
This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cu...
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A Curious History of Sex
2020
This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throughout time, as that would entail writing an encyclopaedia. Rather, this is a drop in the ocean, a paddle in the shallow end of sex history, but I hope you will get pleasantly wet nonetheless.The act of sex has not changed since people first worked out what went where, but the ways in which society dictates how sex is culturally understood and performed have varied significantly through the ages. Humans are the only creatures that stigmatise particular sexual practices, and sex remains a deeply divisive issue around the world. Attitudes will change and grow – hopefully for the better – but sex will never be free of stigma or shame unless we acknowledge where it has come from.Based on the popular research project Whores of Yore, and written with her distinctive humour and wit, A Curious History of Sex draws upon Dr Kate Lister's extensive knowledge of sex history. From medieval impotence tests to twentieth-century testicle thefts, from the erotic frescoes of Pompeii, to modern-day sex doll brothels, Kate unashamedly roots around in the pants of history, debunking myths, challenging stereotypes and generally getting her hands dirty.This fascinating book is peppered with surprising and informative historical slang, and illustrated with eye-opening, toe-curling and meticulously sourced images from the past.You will laugh, you will wince and you will wonder just how much has actually changed.
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Sex customs--History - Sex--HistoryContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2020
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post‑industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the •Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Watson, Bruce
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Smithsonian. Feb98, Vol. 28 Issue 11, p104. 10p. 5 Black and White Photographs.
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Looks at the life of author Jack London, who wrote many well-known books including `Th...
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Smithsonian. Feb98, Vol. 28 Issue 11, p104. 10p. 5 Black and White Photographs.
Looks at the life of author Jack London , who wrote many well-known books including `The Call of the Wild.' His childhood; The relationship between his parents; His days at sea; Education; Life in Alaska; Marriages; His dedication to his writing; Physiological effects of all his travels; Death.
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Tulagi : Pacific Outpost of British Empire
Mr Clive Moore;Mr Clive Moore
Tulagi was the capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate between 1897 and 19...
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Tulagi : Pacific Outpost of British Empire
2019
Tulagi was the capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate between 1897 and 1942. The British withdrawal from the island during the Pacific War, its capture by the Japanese and the American reconquest left the island's facilities damaged beyond repair. After the war, Britain moved the capital to the American military base on Guadalcanal, which became Honiara.The Tulagi settlement was an enclave of several small islands, the permanent population of which was never more than 600: 300 foreigners—one-third of European origin and most of the remainder Chinese—and an equivalent number of Solomon Islanders. Thousands of Solomon Islander males also passed through on their way to work on plantations and as boat crews, hospital patients and prisoners.The history of the Tulagi enclave provides an understanding of the origins of modern Solomon Islands. Tulagi was also a significant outpost of the British Empire in the Pacific, which enables a close analysis of race, sex and class and the process of British colonisation and government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Koger, Grove
Born into poverty and shaped by his experiences on America’s westernmost lands and wat...
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Identities & Issues in Literature. Sep1997, p1-1. 1p.
Born into poverty and shaped by his experiences on America’s westernmost lands and waters, London incorporated the latest European intellectual concepts into his fiction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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London’s radical political views and often gruesomely realistic portrayals of violence...
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Censorship (Ready Reference series). Apr1997, p1-1. 1p.
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On high seas.
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Magazine Antiques; Jan/Feb2015, Vol. 182 Issue 1, p196-203, 8p
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Prodger, Phillip
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Magazine Antiques; Jan/Feb2015, Vol. 182 Issue 1, p196-203, 8p
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The article discusses the photography done by author Jack London with a focus on the p...
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On high seas.
Magazine Antiques; Jan/Feb2015, Vol. 182 Issue 1, p196-203, 8p
The article discusses the photography done by author Jack London with a focus on the photographs he took during his cruise on his ship the Snark . Topics discussed include the ways in which London's photographic style related to his socialist political philosophy, his book "Cruise of the Snark ," and the depictions of Polynesians in London's photographs.
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LONDON, Jack, 1876-1916 - CRUISE of the Snark, The (Book) - AUTHORS as photographers - SOCIALISM & art - POLYNESIANS in artContent provider:
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Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2018
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post‑industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the •Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Akten zur Auswärtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1961
Andreas Wirsching;Hélène Miard-Delacroix;Gregor Schöllgen;Mechthild Lindema...
1961 stand im Zeichen der Berlin-Krise, die mit dem Bau der Mauer ihren Höhepunkt fand...
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Akten zur Auswärtigen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1961
2018
1961 stand im Zeichen der Berlin-Krise, die mit dem Bau der Mauer ihren Höhepunkt fand. Zahlreiche der 566 Dokumente zeigen das Ringen der Bundesregierung mit den Alliierten um Maßnahmen gegen befürchtete weitere Sperrungen auf den Zugängen nach Berlin und um die eigene Rolle in der NATO. Im Fokus der Europapolitik standen Pläne für eine politische Union und einen britischen EWG-Beitritt. Der Eichmann-Prozess in Jerusalem verdeutlichte, wie sehr die Bonner Außenpolitik noch im Schatten der NS-Zeit stand. Die Konkurrenz mit der DDR in den jungen Staaten Afrikas beschleunigte den Ausbau der Entwicklungspolitik; die Zuständigkeit dafür fiel indes in zähen Koalitionsverhandlungen nach der Bundestagswahl vom 17. September an ein neues Ressort.
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Waterman : The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku
David Davis;David Davis
Waterman is the first comprehensive biography of Duke Kahanamoku (1890–1968): swimmer,...
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Waterman : The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku
2015
Waterman is the first comprehensive biography of Duke Kahanamoku (1890–1968): swimmer, surfer, Olympic gold medalist, Hawaiian icon, waterman.Long before Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz made their splashes in the pool, Kahanamoku emerged from the backwaters of Waikiki to become America's first superstar Olympic swimmer. The original “human fish” set dozens of world records and topped the world rankings for more than a decade; his rivalry with Johnny Weissmuller transformed competitive swimming from an insignificant sideshow into a headliner event.Kahanamoku used his Olympic renown to introduce the sport of “surf-riding,” an activity unknown beyond the Hawaiian Islands, to the world. Standing proudly on his traditional wooden longboard, he spread surfing from Australia to the Hollywood crowd in California to New Jersey. No American athlete has influenced two sports as profoundly as Kahanamoku did, and yet he remains an enigmatic and underappreciated figure: a dark-skinned Pacific Islander who encountered and overcame racism and ignorance long before the likes of Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson.Kahanamoku's connection to his homeland was equally important. He was born when Hawaii was an independent kingdom; he served as the sheriff of Honolulu during Pearl Harbor and World War II and as a globetrotting “Ambassador of Aloha” afterward; he died not long after Hawaii attained statehood. As one sportswriter put it, Duke was “Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey combined down here.”In Waterman, award-winning journalist David Davis examines the remarkable life of Duke Kahanamoku, in and out of the water.Purchase the audio edition.
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Surfers--Hawaii--Biography - Swimmers--Hawaii--BiographyContent provider:
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A short life intensely lived: The adventure og Jack London .
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Biography. Jul99, Vol. 3 Issue 7, p70. 6p. 4 Black and White Photographs, 1 Chart.
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Harmon
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Biography. Jul99, Vol. 3 Issue 7, p70. 6p. 4 Black and White Photographs, 1 Chart.
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Looks into the adventures of author Jack London who together with other men joined the...
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A short life intensely lived: The adventure og Jack London .
Biography. Jul99, Vol. 3 Issue 7, p70. 6p. 4 Black and White Photographs, 1 Chart.
Looks into the adventures of author Jack London who together with other men joined the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897. Family background; Childhood; Career history; Inspiration to London's stories and books; Noted works. INSET: Jack's curious politics..
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LONDON, Jack, 1876-1916 - ADVENTURE & adventurers - KLONDIKE Gold Rush, 1896-1899 - YUKON - CANADAContent provider:
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Topical Essays on the Short Story
Salem Press;Salem Press
Topical Essays on the Short Story is a single-volume reference that contains essays ca...
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Topical Essays on the Short Story
2017
Topical Essays on the Short Story is a single-volume reference that contains essays carefully selected by our editors to provide the best information available about the topic covered. The essays in this volume discuss such topics as fables, science fiction, magical realism, and minimalism.
