The cruise of the Snark / by Jack London.
By: London, Jack [author]
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BookPublisher: London : Seafarer Books, 2000Description: xii, 340 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0953818004 (U.K.); 0924486465 (U.S.A.).Subject(s): Voyages and travels | Oceania -- Description and travel | Authors, American -- 20th century -- BiographyDDC classification: 919.504092 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 919.504092 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00109279 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Jack London writes about his own voyage across the Pacific in the Snark. Knowing little of navigation, he set out from San Francisco to Polynesia and Melanesia with his wife and two crew, in a schooner whose defects included a tendency to leak and a refusal to face up to wind when hove to.
Foreword -- The inconceivable and monstrous -- Adventure -- Finding one's wasy about -- The first landfall -- A royal sport -- The lepers of Molokai -- The house of the sun -- A Pacific traverse -- Typee -- The nature man -- The high seat of abundance -- Stone-fishing of Bora Bora -- The amateur navigator -- Cruising in the Solomons -- Bêche de Mer English -- The amateur M.D.