{"product_id":"9781632208910","title":"Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer","description":"Jack London was a writer, but more than that, he was an adventurer who wrote about his adventures. Growing up working class in San Francisco, London diligently scrounged out a life riding trains, pirating oysters, working on a sealing ship, and working at a cannery, all the while using his free time to hole up in libraries reading novels and travel books. A harrowing voyage aboard a sealing ship, where he and the crew were almost killed by a typhoon, convinced him to start writing stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter a brief time on the east coast and a stint in the Yukon mining for gold, London returned to California. He published his stories in the \u003ci\u003eOverland Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, which prompted him to become more disciplined in his writing. He published numerous novels over the years, including \u003ci\u003eThe Call of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e, a story about a dog who becomes a sled dog in the Yukon, \u003ci\u003eThe People of the Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e, which heavily critiqued capitalism, and \u003ci\u003eJohn Barleycorn\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoiristic novel that detailed his struggles with alcoholism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith quotes from the array of Jack London’s writings, readers will get a sense of his life as well as a keen yearning for undertaking their own adventures.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Skyhorse Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180256641264,"sku":"9781632208910","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781632208910_p0.jpg?v=1765233592","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781632208910","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}