Cruise of the Snark

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Memoirs

Authors: Jack London In Year : 1913

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Cruise of the Snark

Chapter I -- Foreword
Chapter II -- The Inconceivable And Monstrous
Chapter III -- Adventure
Chapter IV -- Finding One's Way About
Chapter V -- The First Landfall
Chapter VI -- A Royal Sport
Chapter VII -- The Lepers Of Molokai
Chapter VIII -- The House Of The Sun
Chapter IX -- A Pacific Traverse
Chapter X -- Typee
Chapter XI -- The Nature Man
Chapter XII -- The High Seat of Abundance
Chapter XIII -- The Stone-fishing of Bora Bora
Chapter XIV -- The Amateur Navigator
Chapter XV -- Cruising in the Solomons
Chapter XVI -- Beche de Mer English
Chapter XVII -- The Amateur M.D.
Back Word

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.
(Excerpted from Wikipedia)