Jerry of the Islands

ISBN-13: 9781421811512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 272 str.

Jack London

Opis

Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It is a misfortune to some fiction-writers that fiction and unveracity in the average persons mind mean one and the same thing. Several years ago I published a South Sea novel. The action was placed in the Solomon Islands. The action was praised by the critics and reviewers as a highly creditable effort of the imagination. As regards reality - they said there wasnt any. Of course, as every one knew, kinky-haired cannibals no longer obtained on the earths surface, much less ran around with nothing on, chopping off one anothers heads, and, on occasion, a white mans head as well. Now listen. I am writing these lines in Honolulu, Hawaii. Yesterday, on the beach at Waikiki, a stranger spoke to me. He mentioned a mutual friend, Captain Kellar. When I was wrecked in the Solomons on the blackbirder, the Minota, it was Captain Kellar, master of the blackbirder, the Eugenie, who rescued me. The blacks had taken Captain Kellars head, the stranger told me. He knew. He had represented Captain Kellars mother in settling up the estate.