Sailor on Horseback (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Irving Stone
- First Published: 1938
- Time of Work: 1848–1916
- Setting: Northern California, Canada, the Klondike, Japan, Hawaii, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Fiji, Australia, Mexico, and England
- Principal Characters: Jack London, Flora Wellman London, John London, Eliza London Shepard, Mabel Applegarth, Bessie Maddern London, Charmian Kittredge, George P. Brett
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Traveling or travelers, Authors or writers, Marriage, Writing, Sailing or sailors, Sea or seafaring life, Adventure, Biography
- Locales: Mexico, England, Canada, Japan, Hawaii, Klondike, Australia, Northern California, Tahiti, Marquesas, Fiji
Form and Content
In Sailor on Horseback: The Biography of Jack London, Irving Stone has documented the personal and professional life of one of the United States’ greatest writers. The book begins with a brief history of London’s mother and father and then moves chronologically through London’s life. Organized into ten chapters, the book reads like a novel, recounting London’s risks as a fifteen-year-old “oyster pirate” who brawled in the waterfront saloons and fended off armed attacks of his sloop, the Razzle Dazzle, as well as his trip to the Alaskan...
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