Cruise of the Snark

by Jack London

18 chapters8h 5mEnglish1913

About this book

The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London's 1907-1909 voyage across the Pacific. His descriptions of "surf-riding", which he dubbed a "royal sport", helped introduce it to and popularize it with the mainland. London writes: Through the white crest of a breaker suddenly appears a dark figure, erect, a man-fish or a sea-god, on the very forward face of the crest where the top falls over and down, driving in toward shore, buried to his loins in smoking spray, caught up by the sea and flung landward, bodily, a quarter of a mile. It is a Kanaka on a surf-board. And I know that when I have finished these lines I shall be out in that riot of colour and pounding surf, trying to bit those breakers even as he, and failing as he never failed, but living life as the best of us may live it. (Excerpted from Wikipedia)

Chapters (18)

1Chapter I -- Foreword

1343

2Chapter II -- The Inconceivable And Monstrous

1891

3Chapter III -- Adventure

1045

4Chapter IV -- Finding One's Way About

1392

5Chapter V -- The First Landfall

911

6Chapter VI -- A Royal Sport

1460

7Chapter VII -- The Lepers Of Molokai

1842

8Chapter VIII -- The House Of The Sun

1746

9Chapter IX -- A Pacific Traverse

2149

10Chapter X -- Typee

1851

11Chapter XI -- The Nature Man

1669

12Chapter XII -- The High Seat of Abundance

2309

13Chapter XIII -- The Stone-fishing of Bora Bora

915

14Chapter XIV -- The Amateur Navigator

2405

15Chapter XV -- Cruising in the Solomons

2325

16Chapter XVI -- Beche de Mer English

939

17Chapter XVII -- The Amateur M.D.

2343

18Back Word

604

Cruise of the Snark

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