When the ferry Martinez goes down in fog on San Francisco Bay, the literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is fished out by the sealing schooner Ghost and made to serve as cabin boy. Her captain, Wolf Larsen, reads philosophy and rules by his fists, and on the voyage to the Japanese sealing grounds Van Weyden must learn to stand on his own legs.
London’s 1904 duel between Nietzschean strength and civilised conscience, set on the hard working sea he knew firsthand. Download the free EPUB.