Captain David Grief
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Captain David Grief, South Pacific tycoon, owns plantations and trading stations from New Guinea to Samoa, pearling fisheries in the Paumotus, and rubber acreages in the Louisiades. His own vessels recruit contract labor, and he operates three steamers on ocean runs. He came to the South Seas at the age of twenty and, blessed with a blond skin impervious to tropical rays, browned over two decades into a true âson of the sun.â At forty years of age, he looks no more than thirty. His manifold enterprises flourish. His is the golden touch. Yet he plays the South Seas game not for the gold but for the gameâs sake and for the daring life of the island rover.
Told in Jack Londonâs graphic and colorful style, David Griefâs adventures are related through these eight long tales of danger and daring:
âThe Son of the Sunâ âThe Proud Goat of Aloysius Pankburnâ âThe Devils of Fuatinoâ âThe Jokers of New Gibbonâ âA Little Account with Swithin Hallâ âA Goboto Nightâ âThe Feathers of the Sunâ âThe Pearls of Parlayâ
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Jack London (1876â1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. Before making a living at his writing, he spent time as an oyster pirate, a sailor, a cannery worker, a gold miner, and a journalist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction writing. He is best known for his novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set during the Klondike gold rush, as well as the short stories âTo Build a Fire,â âAn Odyssey of the North,â and âLove of Life.â He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as âThe Pearls of Parlayâ and âThe Heathen.â He was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, including The Iron Heel, The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.
Brian Emerson is an actor and technical director with a long career in the Washington, DC, and Baltimore areas.
