South Sea Tales
by Jack London
Like the famous "Klondike Tales", the stories that make up the "South Sea Tales" draw their intensity from the author's own distant adventures and carry a neutral, brutal vision that carries only experience. The powerful tales collected here vividly evoke the colonial Pacific ocean and capricious tropical landscape of the end of the century, carefully observing the subtle interplay between imperialism and exoticism. As Tony Horwitz notes in Introduction: "When London's stories are clicked on, we're there, we're on the edge of the world, and we're on the edge of human endurance."
