This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Books by Jack London, Novels by Jack London, Short Stories by Jack London, White Fang, the Iron Heel, the Sea-Wolf, Martin Eden, List of White Fang Episodes, the Call of the Wild, the Cruise of the Snark, the Star Rover, the Little Lady of the Big House, the People of the Abyss, the Mexican, the Kempton-Wace Letters, White Fang, the Legend of White Fang, a Daughter of the Snows, the Scarlet Plague, John Barleycorn, the Leopard Man's Story, White Fang, the Assassination Bureau, Ltd, the Valley of the Moon, Moon-Face, the Unparalleled Invasion, White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf, a Piece of Steak, Batard, the Red One, to Build a Fire, Before Adam, a Thousand Deaths. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Cruise of the Snark (1911) is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his ketch "The Snark." Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife Charmian and a small crew. London taught himself celestial navigation and the basics of sailing and of boats during the course of this adventure and describes these details to the reader. He visits exotic locations including the Solomon Islands and Hawaii and his first person accounts and photographs provide insight into these remote places at the beginning of the 20th century.Caption: 'The Nature Man comes on Board the Snark' pg 180About the Snark The snark was named after Lewis Carroll 's poem The Hunting of the Snark . The Snark had two masts and was 43 foot long at the waterline for which London claims to have paid thirty thousand dollars. The snark was primarily a sailboat, however, it also had an auxiliary 70 hp engine. It was further equipped with one life boat.In 1906, Author Jack London began to build a 45-foot yacht on which he...