by Jack London · Folio · tapa dura · ISBN 9788441319769
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«El crucero del Snark» is Jack London's autobiographical travel account, published by Folio in hardcover (278 pages, in Spanish).
Jack London recounts his voyage across the Pacific aboard the sailboat Snark, which he had built despite not being an experienced sailor. He set sail from San Francisco with his wife and some friends towards Hawaii, the Marquesas and the Solomons. His chronicle of two years of sailing describes the hospitality of the South Seas, its people and the risks of the ocean.
It belongs to the Biblioteca del Viajero collection, number 38, and was originally published in 1907 as «The Cruise of the Snark».
For readers of travel literature and classic adventures, with an interest in the figure of Jack London and in the sailing chronicle.
John Griffith London, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing.
