South Sea Tales

Like the celebratedKlondike Tales, the stories that compriseSouth Sea Talesderive their intensity from the author's own far-flung adventures, conveying an impassioned, unsparing vision borne only of experience. The powerful tales gathered here vividly evoke the turn-of-the-century colonial Pacific and its capricious tropical landscape, while also trenchantly observing the delicate interplay between imperialism and the exotic. And as Tony Horwitz asserts in his Introduction, "When London's stories click, we are utterly there, at the edge of the world and the limit of human endurance."

<b>Christopher Gair</b> is a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Birmingham, and a contributor to the <i>Jack London Journal</i> and other publications. He lives in Cambridge, England.<br><br><b>Tony Horwitz</b> is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of <i>Confederates in the Attic</i>, among other books. He lives in Virginia.