Jack London looks back at the 1890s, when he was a young tramp beating his way across America on freight trains. He explains how to hold down a train against the brakemen, how to tell a story at a stranger’s back door for a meal, and what he saw after being pinched for vagrancy and sent to the penitentiary, along with sketches of road-kids, gay-cats and an army of two thousand marching unemployed.
A vivid first-hand record of hobo life and slang, and some of London’s liveliest nonfiction. Download the free EPUB.