Set against the natural beauty of south sea islands and alive with the hazards of headhunters, sharks, storms and disease, these eight powerful short stories include 'Mauki,' which tells of a young Melanesian sold into slavery; as well as 'The Terrible Solomons,' 'The House of Mapuhi,' 'The Whale To[...]

Another outstanding title in the acclaimed series described as "a CD-ROM between covers."



White Fang was written as the companion book to Jack London's classic 1903 runaway bestseller The Call of the Wild. Seen through the eyes of White Fang--who is half dog, half wolf--the[...]

Impressed into service aboard the seal-hunting "Ghost," Humphrey Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a tense shipboard drama. With a wary eye, he watches the vessel's abusive captain, Wolf Larsen, an enigma who can abandon two sailors on the open water, then return to reading the moral ph[...]

Out of the white wilderness, out of the Far North, London, one of America's most popular authors, drew the inspiration for the novel "The Call of the Wild" and five short stories included in this anthology. Revised reissue.[...]

Follow Buck, a domestic dog, as he travels back to his kind's roots and runs with the wolves. Taken from his home in the Santa Clara Valley, Buck is taken to the Northland during the Klondike gold rush and finally returns to nature. "The Call of the Wild" was and is one Jack London's finest works. L[...]

Five exciting tales that epitomize Jack London's mastery of the adventure story: "The White Silence," "In a Far Country," "An Odyssey of the North," "The Sigh of McCoy" and "The Mexican." Publisher's Note.
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Jack London (1876-1916), at his peak, was the highest paid and the most popular of all living writers. Because of financial difficulties, he was largely self educated past grammar school. A large part of his knowledge was obtained from the Oakland Public Library. London draws heavily on his life exp[...]

A road novel fifty years before Kerouac, "The Valley of the Moon" traces the odyssey of Billy and Saxon Roberts from the labor strife of Oakland at the turn of the century through Central and Northern California in search of land they can farm independently - a journey that echoes Jack London's own [...]

"The Call Of The Wild" is the story of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrust into the merciless life of the Arctic north to endure hardship, bitter cold, and the savage lawlessness of man and beast. "White Fang" is the adventure of an animal -- part dog, part wolf --turned vicious by cruel abu[...]

A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas, The Sea-Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. It is the vivid story of a gentleman scholar, Humphrey Van Weyden, who is rescued by a seal-hunting schooner after a ferryboat accident in San Francisco Bay. London uses Van Weyden's ordeal[...]

'With passion and vision, he used his skill as a journalist to expose the horrors of the Abyss to the world ...Poverty is war, and it rages on with no end in sight, and the management is still guilty of mismanaging the wealth. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, the People of the Abyss are among us today.'[...]