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South Sea Tales
Contributor(s): London, Jack (Author), Horwitz, Tony (Introduction by), Gair, Christopher (Editor)
ISBN: 0375759298     ISBN-13: 9780375759291
Publisher: Modern Library
OUR PRICE:   $22.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2002
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Annotation: Like the celebrated "Klondike Tales, the stories that comprise "South Sea Tales derive their intensity from the author's 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 London's stories click, we are utterly there, at the edge of the world and the limit of human endurance."
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Science Fiction - General
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Classics
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2001056227
Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.22" W x 8.02" (0.63 lbs) 384 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Oceania
 
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Publisher Description:
Like the celebrated Klondike Tales, the stories that comprise South Sea Tales derive their intensity from the author's 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 London's stories click, we are utterly there, at the edge of the world and the limit of human endurance."