Stories of Ships and the Sea: Little Blue Book # 1169
By Jack London
()
About this ebook
Jack London
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist and journalist. Born in San Francisco to Florence Wellman, a spiritualist, and William Chaney, an astrologer, London was raised by his mother and her husband, John London, in Oakland. An intelligent boy, Jack went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley before leaving school to join the Klondike Gold Rush. His experiences in the Klondike—hard labor, life in a hostile environment, and bouts of scurvy—both shaped his sociopolitical outlook and served as powerful material for such works as “To Build a Fire” (1902), The Call of the Wild (1903), and White Fang (1906). When he returned to Oakland, London embarked on a career as a professional writer, finding success with novels and short fiction. In 1904, London worked as a war correspondent covering the Russo-Japanese War and was arrested several times by Japanese authorities. Upon returning to California, he joined the famous Bohemian Club, befriending such members as Ambrose Bierce and John Muir. London married Charmian Kittredge in 1905, the same year he purchased the thousand-acre Beauty Ranch in Sonoma County, California. London, who suffered from numerous illnesses throughout his life, died on his ranch at the age of 40. A lifelong advocate for socialism and animal rights, London is recognized as a pioneer of science fiction and an important figure in twentieth century American literature.
Read more from Jack London
10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Vol. 3: The Pit and the Pendulum, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, At the Mountains of Madness, Frankenstein, No Longer Human. Confessions of a Faulty Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeadline Artists—Scandals, Tragedies & Triumphs: More of America's Greatest Newspaper Columns Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/550 Great Love Letters You Have To Read (Golden Deer Classics) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To Build a Fire Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Classic Tales of Science Fiction & Fantasy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Classic American Short Story MEGAPACK ® (Volume 1): 34 of the Greatest Stories Ever Written Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jack London: The Greatest Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Greatest American Short Stories: 50+ Classics of American Literature Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Victorian Mystery Megapack: 27 Classic Mystery Tales Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Plague, Pestilence & Apocalypse MEGAPACK ®: 18 Tales of Doom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Moloch Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Greatest American Short Stories (Vol. 1) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Post-Apocalyptic Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTRICK OR TREAT Boxed Set: 200+ Eerie Tales from the Greatest Storytellers: Horror Classics, Mysterious Cases, Gothic Novels, Monster Tales & Supernatural Stories: Sweeney Todd, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Frankenstein, The Vampire, Dracula, Sleepy Hollow, From Beyond… Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhite Fang: Level 2 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Jack London Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe People of the Abyss Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Classics (Omnibus Edition) (Diversion Classics) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Stories of Ships and the Sea
Related ebooks
Stories of Ships and the Sea Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stories of Ships and the Sea: Little Blue Book # 1169 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStories of Ships and the Sea: Five Classic Short Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStories Of Ships & The Sea: “And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.” Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Perils of Certain English Prisoners Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOn the Seaboard: A Novel of the Baltic Islands Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsStephen Crane - A Short Story Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Perils of Certain English Prisoners and Their Treasure in Women, Children, Silver, and Jewels Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTales of the Fish Patrol Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPerils Of Certain English Prisoners: “To a young heart everything is fun.” Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTHE OPEN BOAT Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Garden of God Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTen Months in a German Raider: A prisoner of war aboard the Wolf Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Garden of God (Romance Classic) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe shipwreck of the PACIFIC: Family drama on a coral island Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlaska Sea Escapes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChapter & Verse - Stephen Crane Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCaptive Angel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Inspector French and the Loss of the ‘Jane Vosper’ Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brewer’s Revenge Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Reprinted Pieces Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Garden of God Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnder Sail Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Open Boat: Short Story Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsYouth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFull Speed Ahead: Tales from the Log of a Correspondent with Our Navy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWest of Wisdom: A Tale of Lust and Love in the South Pacific Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sand Tower Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Open Boat and Other Stories Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
General Fiction For You
Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fellowship Of The Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Man Called Ove: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Silmarillion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The City of Dreaming Books Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Shantaram: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Unhoneymooners Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beyond Good and Evil Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ulysses: With linked Table of Contents Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Canterbury Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Ends with Us: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Meditations: Complete and Unabridged Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beartown: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Sister's Keeper: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything's Fine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Anonymous Sex Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Nettle & Bone Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Stories of Ships and the Sea
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Stories of Ships and the Sea - Jack London
Jack London
Stories of Ships and the Sea
Little Blue Book # 1169
Published by Good Press, 2022
goodpress@okpublishing.info
EAN 4057664642417
Table of Contents
STORIES OF SHIPS AND THE SEA
CHRIS FARRINGTON: ABLE SEAMAN
TYPHOON OFF THE COAST OF JAPAN
THE LOST POACHER
THE BANKS OF THE SACRAMENTO
IN YEDDO BAY
STORIES OF SHIPS AND THE SEA
CHRIS FARRINGTON: ABLE SEAMAN
Table of Contents
If you vas in der old country ships, a liddle shaver like you vood pe only der boy, und you vood wait on der able seamen. Und ven der able seaman sing out, 'Boy, der water-jug!' you vood jump quick, like a shot, und bring der water-jug. Und ven der able seaman sing out, 'Boy, my boots!' you vood get der boots. Und you vood pe politeful, und say 'Yessir' und 'No sir.' But you pe in der American ship, and you t'ink you are so good as der able seamen. Chris, mine boy, I haf ben a sailorman for twenty-two years, und do you t'ink you are so good as me? I vas a sailorman pefore you vas borned, und I knot und reef und splice ven you play mit topstrings und fly kites.
But you are unfair, Emil!
cried Chris Farrington, his sensitive face flushed and hurt. He was a slender though strongly built young fellow of seventeen, with Yankee ancestry writ large all over him.
Dere you go vonce again!
the Swedish sailor exploded. My name is Mister Johansen, und a kid of a boy like you call me 'Emil!' It vas insulting, und comes pecause of der American ship!
But you call me 'Chris'!
the boy expostulated, reproachfully.
But you vas a boy.
Who does a man's work,
Chris retorted. "And because I do a man's work I have as much right to call you by your first name as you me. We are all equals in this fo'castle, and you know it. When we signed for the voyage in San Francisco, we signed as sailors on the Sophie Sutherland and there was no difference made with any of us. Haven't I always done my work? Did I ever shirk? Did you or any other man ever have to take a wheel for me? Or a lookout? Or go aloft?"
Chris is right,
interrupted a young English sailor. No man has had to do a tap of his work yet. He signed as good as any of us and he's shown himself as good—
Better!
broke in a Novia Scotia man. Better than some of us! When we struck the sealing-grounds he turned out to be next to the best boat-steerer aboard. Only French Louis, who'd been at it for years, could beat him. I'm only a boat-puller, and you're only a boat-puller, too, Emil Johansen, for all your twenty-two years at sea. Why don't you become a boat-steerer?
Too clumsy,
laughed the Englishman, and too slow.
Little that counts, one way or the other,
joined in Dane Jurgensen, coming to the aid of his Scandinavian brother. Emil is a man grown and an able seaman; the boy is neither.
And so the argument raged back and forth, the Swedes, Norwegians and Danes, because of race kinship, taking the part of Johansen, and the English, Canadians and Americans taking the part of Chris. From an unprejudiced point of view, the right was on the side of Chris. As he had truly said, he did a man's work, and the same work that any of them did. But they were prejudiced, and badly so, and out of the words which passed rose a standing quarrel which divided the forecastle into two parties.
The Sophie Sutherland was a seal-hunter, registered out of San Francisco, and engaged in hunting the furry sea-animals along the Japanese coast north to Bering Sea. The other vessels were two-masted schooners, but she was a three-master and the largest in the fleet. In fact, she was a full-rigged, three-topmast schooner, newly built.
Although Chris Farrington knew that justice was with him, and that he performed all his work faithfully and well, many a time, in secret thought, he longed for some pressing emergency to arise whereby he could demonstrate to the Scandinavian seamen that he also was an able seaman.
But one stormy night, by an accident for