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1) The road
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During the catastrophic economic depression of the 1890s, young Jack London found himself in the same situation as many others-homeless and unemployed. After a failed American investment and crop failure, the nation found itself in a panic. As London recounts these times, he tells stories of hopping on freight trains, consequently being forcefully removed. While living as a hobo, London often had to beg for food and money, and frequently found himself...
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Knowing little of navigation, he set out from San Francisco with his wife and two crew, in a schooner whose defects included a tendency to leak and a refusal to face up to the wind when hove to. Snark took them to Hawaii, and then to the Marquesas and Solomon Islands; everywhere they were overwhelmed with South Seas hospitality. Jack London was able to admire the sailing qualities of Polynesian catamarans and succumb to the pleasures of life ashore,...
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