The Mutiny of the Elsinore (Annotated)

by Jack London

Overview

• This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Jack London, an infinite passion for adventure that drove all his work

First published in 1914, "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" is a maritime adventure novel by American author Jack London partially based on his voyage around Cape Horn on the Dirigo in 1912. The novel has been adapted into films three times.

"The Mutiny of the Elsinore" narrates the story of John Pathurst, a rich and famous author suffering from depression and ennui who has lost his taste for life. New York, fame, women, and the arts have all become tedious. Searching for excitement, he books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle on a route that travels around the treacherous Cape Horn. Pathurst encounters more than he ever expected in rough seas, turbulent storms, and a mutinous crew. His epic struggles aboard the sailing ship Elsinore have given him a new love for life, but will he survive to profit from it?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9791221378122
Publisher:	ePembaBooks
Publication date:	01/05/2023
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

John Griffith "Jack" London, birth name John Griffith Chaney, was a prolific American novelist, journalist, short story writer, essayist, and social activist. He is considered as the pioneer of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain world-wide fame and a large fortune from his fiction alone. "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang", set in the Klondike Gold Rush, are considered to be his most popular and well-known works. His short stories, "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life", are also among his famous works. He also wrote about the South Pacific In such stories as "The Pearls of Parley" and "The Heathen", and about the San Francisco Bay area in "The Sea Wolf".
Jack was a passionate advocate of Socialism, Unionization, and the Rights of Workers. He was also part of the radical literary group, "The Crowd", in San Francisco. He produced several powerful works on the topics of Socialism, Unionization, and the Rights of Workers, such as his dystopian novel "The Iron Heel", his non-fiction expose "The People of the Abyss" and "The War of the Classes".