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South Sea Tales

Written by: Jack London
Narrated by: Lloyd James
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A rare pearl is fought over during a hurricane on a South Sea island. A zealous missionary sets out to spread the gospel in a land of cannibals. The son of a Polynesian chief becomes the slave of a white man. These stories and others portray life in the South Seas in the days of tall ships over a century ago. In powerful and compelling language that seems not the least bit dated, Jack London tells eight tales of high daring and great savagery, of bravery and death, even of occasional humor, that could only take place in the exotic South Sea islands. Based around themes London considered important—race, culture, justice, and heroism—the stories derive their intensity from the author’s own far-flung adventures, conveying an impassioned, unsparing vision borne only of experience.

Included here are the following stories: “The House of Mapuhi,” “The Whale Tooth,” “Mauki,” “Yah! Yah! Yah!” “The Heathen,” “The Terrible Solomons,” “The Inevitable White Man,” and “The Seed of McCoy.”

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“He was an adventurer and a man of action as few writers have ever been…The excellence of his short stories has been almost forgotten.”

(George Orwell)

“Lloyd James reads wonderfully, turning a one-man reading into a lyrical presentation that feels like a full-cast production. Not only does James handle half a dozen accents easily, he shifts pace to capture the cadence of London’s vivid passages of extended description and allows London’s near-poetry to ring out powerfully.”

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I read an abridged version of White Fang as a child and still remember scenes from the book fifty years later, while many other books, even those read a few months ago, have faded from memory. I rediscovered Jack London's writing through this beautifully read audiobook and understood why. There is no other author that I have read who can portray a scene or situation with words of such beauty, clarity and depth that they are indelibly etched in one's memory.

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