Stories of Hawaii - Softcover

Jack London

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0935180087 ISBN 13: 9780935180084

Publisher: Mutual Publishing, 1994

Synopsis

A collection of short stories written after London and his wife Charmian visit the Hawaiian islands in 1907.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

John Griffith London, adventurer and popular author, sailed his self-designed ketch Snark from San Francisco to Honolulu in 1907, and with his wife Charmian spent five months touring the islands before embarking on a two-year cruise of the South Seas.

Two volumes of short stories that should be more widely known were written about the future Fiftieth State and dramatize his aloha for the people he met on his travels. Jack and Charmian reveled in the beach life of Waikiki, rode around Oahu, descended into the giant crater of Haleakala on the island of Maui, and stayed at the celebrated Parker Ranch on the Big Island. A visit to the isolation colony on Molokai elicited several tales in a collection which, here presented, with a perceptive introduction, reveal that "London was still at the peak of his powers when he wrote them."

About this edition

• Publisher: Mutual Publishing
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0935180087
• ISBN 13: 9780935180084
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 282