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Jack London's Travels
The Spell of the Yukon: Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush
Author: Jack London
When the steamer, Portland, docked in Seattle on July 17, 1897, people were just sitting down to their breakfasts, unaware that this day would be any different from the one before. An enterprising reporter for the Post-Intelligencer knew differently. He had already been on board the Portland and he knew that she carried two tons of gold from the Canadian northwest. GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! screamed the headline that morning, in a cry that would soon be echoed around the world. It was welcome news to a nation grappling with a severe economic recession.
Posted on Tue, Jul 18, 2006
Jack London's Korea
Author: Jack London
In the ways that some writers are remembered for their writings and ramblings in certain corners of the earth, Jack London's name evokes images of the Yukon, California locales, and the South Seas. Yet one of London's most adventurous forays abroad is a small footnote in his literary achievements. London covered the Russo-Japanese War as a correspondent in Korea.
Posted on Sat, Jul 15, 2006
The House That Jack Built - The Beauty Ranch
Author: Jack London
I am ... only just now beginning my first feeble attempts at building a house for myself. That is to say, I am chopping down some redwood trees and leaving them in the woods to season against such a time, two or three years hence, when they will be used in building the house. Jack London Feb. 3, 1911
Posted on Sat, Aug 23, 2003
Jack London: The American Karl Marx
Author: Jack London
Called the "Boy Socialist: and the "American Karl Marx," Jack London succeeded so well as a writer under the capitalistic system that he could afford to build a "palace for his pigs," to popularize the sport of surfing, and to show off his bridge of artificial teeth to huge crowds. In addition to being one of the highest paid writers of his time, Jack London also ran for Mayor of Oakland twice and was pushed to run for the presidency -- all on the Socialist ticket.
Posted on Sat, Dec 01, 2001
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