| Jerry of the Islands by Jack London, Fiction, Action & Adventure Contributor(s): London, Jack (Author) |
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ISBN: 1603128638 ISBN-13: 9781603128636 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2007 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Jack London made a specialty of books about marvelous dogs. Most readers are familiar with "White Fang" and "The Call of the Wild." Another story of a wonderful dog, "Jerry of the Islands," tells the story of a dog from the Southern seas, rather than the cold North. Jerry's life is colored by his experiences in the rough -- and sadly, racist -- land of Melanesia. First published in 1915, "Jerry of the Islands" tells the story of Jerry's narrow world, in which the dog has been born and raised to carry out the racist aims of his master, and his travels after that time -- eventually to the happy ending in the new, golden land of California, where he is reunited with his family at last. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.83 lbs) 160 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): London, Jack: - "John Griffith "Jack" London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire," "An Odyssey of the North" and "Love of Life." He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen" and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf." |