A Son of the Sun

Author:   Jack London
Publisher:   General Books LLC
ISBN:  

9781459015562


Pages:   122
Publication Date:   05 August 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Chapter Three THE DEVILS OF FUATINO Of his many schooners, ketches and cutters that nosed about among the coral isles of the South Seas, David Grief loved most the Rattler - a yacht-like schooner of ninety tons with so swift a pair of heels that she had made herself famous, in the old days, opium-smuggling from San Diego to Puget Sound, raiding the seal- rookeries of Bering Sea, and running arms in the Far East. A stench and an abomination to government officials, she had been the joy of all sailormen, and the pride of the shipwrights who built her. Even now, after forty years of driving, she was still the same old Rattler, fore- reaching in the same marvellous manner that compelled sailors to see in order to believe and that punctuated many an angry discussionwith words and blows on the beaches of all the ports from Valparaiso to Manila Bay. On this night, close-hauled, her big mainsail preposterously flattened down, her luffs pulsing emptily on the lift of each smooth swell, she was sliding an easy four knots through the water on the veriest whisper of a breeze. For an hour David Grief had been leaning on the rail at the lee fore-rigging, gazing overside at the steady phosphorescence of her gait. The faint back-draught from the headsails fanned his cheek and chest with a wine of coolness, and he was in an ecstasy of appreciation of the schooner's qualities. Eh! - She's a beauty, Taute, a beauty, he said to the Kanaka lookout, at the same time stroking the teak of the rail with an affectionate hand. Ay, skipper, the Kanaka answered in the rich, big-chested tones of Polynesia. Thirty years I know ships, but never like this. On Raiatea we call her Fanauao. The Dayborn, Grief translated the love- phrase. Who named her so? About to answer, Taute peered ah...

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Author:   Jack London
Publisher:   General Books LLC
Imprint:   General Books LLC
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 15.20cm
Weight:   0.190kg
ISBN:  

9781459015562


ISBN 10:   1459015568
Pages:   122
Publication Date:   05 August 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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