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The Cruise of the Snark

Jack London

(1876 - 1916)

Read by Bryan Ness, Todd Lennon, Pam Burton, Roger Melin, Jim Allman, Kayo

Run Time 8 Hours 5 Minutes in 8 Audio CDs

The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London's 1907-1909 voyage across the Pacific. His descriptions of "surf-riding", which he dubbed a "royal sport", helped introduce it to and popularize it with the mainland. London writes:

Through the white crest of a breaker suddenly appears a dark figure, erect, a man-fish or a sea-god, on the very forward face of the crest where the top falls over and down, driving in toward shore, buried to his loins in smoking spray, caught up by the sea and flung landward, bodily, a quarter of a mile. It is a Kanaka on a surf-board. And I know that when I have finished these lines I shall be out in that riot of colour and pounding surf, trying to bit those breakers even as he, and failing as he never failed, but living life as the best of us may live it.

Chapters:

Foreword

The Inconceivable And Monstrous

Adventure

Finding One's Way About

The First Landfall

A Royal Sport

The Lepers Of Molokai

The House Of The Sun

A Pacific Traverse

Typee

The Nature Man

The High Seat of Abundance

The Stonefishing of Bora Bora

The Amateur Navigator

Cruising in the Solomons

Beche de Mer English

The Amateur M.D.

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