The Cruise of the Snark
by Jack London
'The Cruise of the Snark ' Summary
In 1906, Jack London began to build a 45-foot yacht on which he planned a round-the-world voyage, to last seven years.
The Snark was named after Lewis Carroll's 1876 poem The Hunting of the Snark. She had two masts and was 45 feet long at the waterline and 55 feet on deck, and London claimed to have spent thirty thousand dollars on her construction. She was primarily sail power; however, she also had an auxiliary 70-horsepower engine. She carried one lifeboat.
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Jack London
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John Griffith London was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an internatio...
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