Synopses & Reviews
Like the celebrated Klondike Tales, the stories that comprise South Sea Tales derive their intensity from the authors own far-flung adventures, conveying an impassioned, unsparing vision borne only of experience. The powerful tales gathered here vividly evoke the turn-of-the-century colonial Pacific and its capricious tropical landscape, while also trenchantly observing the delicate interplay between imperialism and the exotic. And as Tony Horwitz asserts in his Introduction, “When Londons stories click, we are utterly there, at the edge of the world and the limit of human endurance.”
Synopsis
An exciting new collection of London's famed South Sea Tales, edited by London scholar Christopher Gair.
These powerful stories rank among London's finest, in their trenchant look at imperialism and the exotic. London's grasp of the complicated human motivations for foreign exploration, and the often inevitable responses to local cultures which result, is unerring. This edition is unique to the Modern Library, and includes endnotes.
About the Author
Christopher Gair is a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Birmingham, and a contributor to the
Jack London Journal and other publications. He lives in Cambridge, England.
Tony Horwitz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Confederates in the Attic, among other books. He lives in Virginia.