Adventure by Jack London 1911 Adventure by Jack London was first published in 1911, is a 28 Chapter novel that depicts the institution of slavery on the Solomon Islands. Jack London is credited with being one of the first American authors to make a living strictly on writing, and is one of the fathers of the American Naturalism Movement. Adventure by Jack London This book revolves around a plantation owner in the Solomon Islands and his use of native labor. His work force is mainly former cannibals who are conscripted to service and their hatred of the white man and their desire to kill him. I'm nearly finished reading it now the story is pretty good. An interesting read to say the least. Controversial at the time of its writing, it is even more so today. "He was a very sick white man. He rode pick-a-back on a woolly-headed, black-skinned savage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and stretched until one had torn out, while the other carried a circular block of carved wood three inches in diameter. The torn ear had been pierced again, but this time not so ambitiously, for the hole accommodated no more than a short clay pipe. The man-horse was greasy and dirty, and naked save for an exceedingly narrow and dirty loin-cloth; but the white man clung to him closely and desperately. At times, from weakness, his head drooped and rested on the woolly pate. At other times he lifted his head and stared with swimming eyes at the coconut palms that reeled and swung in the shimmering heat." -Excerpted from "Adventure" Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909). Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $75,000 today. His career was well under way. Among his famous works are: Children of the Frost (1902), The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Game (1905), White Fang (1906), The Road (1907), Before Adam (1907), Adventure (1911), and The Scarlet Plague (1912).

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