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South Sea Tales
English BooksWhale Edition by Jack London
A Pacific story collection of adventure, colonial tension, shipboard danger, and London’s hard-edged naturalism.
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South Sea Tales
South Sea Tales gathers Jack London’s South Pacific fiction into a vivid collection of sailors, traders, islands, storms, greed, courage, and cultural collision. The stories show London’s gift for compressed adventure and moral pressure, making this English edition useful for readers of classic sea fiction, imperial-era literature, and early twentieth-century storytelling.
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Jack London died in 1916, and South Sea Tales was first published in 1911. These dates support the public-domain basis for this original English collection.
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Table of contents
Inside this edition
- 01Full text
- 02The House of Mapuhi
- 03The Whale Tooth
- 04Mauki
- 05“Yah! Yah! Yah!”
- 06The Heathen
- 07The Terrible Solomons
- 08The Inevitable White Man
- 09The Seed of McCoy
- 10THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
- 11THE WHALE TOOTH
- 12MAUKI
- 13“YAH! YAH! YAH!”
- 14THE HEATHEN
- 15THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS
- 16THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN
- 17THE SEED OF McCOY
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