Cruise of the SnarkJack London
Cruise of the Snark
The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London's 1907-1909 voyage across the Pacific. His descriptions of "surf-riding", which he dubbed a "royal sport", helped introduce it to and popularize it with the mainland. London writes:
Through the white crest of a breaker suddenly appears a dark figure, erect, a man-fish or a sea-god, on the very forward face of the crest where the top falls over and down, driving in toward shore, buried to his loins in smoking spray, caught up by the sea and flung landward, bodily, a quarter of a mile. It is a Kanaka on a surf-board. And I know that when I have finished these lines I shall be out in that riot of colour and pounding surf, trying to bit those breakers even as he, and failing as he never failed, but living life as the best of us may live it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia.
Audiolibros
18 capítulos
8 h 5 min
- 1 Chapter I -- Foreword22:23
- 2 Chapter II -- The Inconceivable And Monstrous31:31
- 3 Chapter III -- Adventure17:25
- 4 Chapter IV -- Finding One's Way About23:12
- 5 Chapter V -- The First Landfall15:11
- 6 Chapter VI -- A Royal Sport24:20
- 7 Chapter VII -- The Lepers Of Molokai30:42
- 8 Chapter VIII -- The House Of The Sun29:06
- 9 Chapter IX -- A Pacific Traverse35:49
- 10 Chapter X -- Typee30:51
- 11 Chapter XI -- The Nature Man27:49
- 12 Chapter XII -- The High Seat of Abundance38:29
- 13 Chapter XIII -- The Stone-fishing of Bora Bora15:15
- 14 Chapter XIV -- The Amateur Navigator40:05
- 15 Chapter XV -- Cruising in the Solomons38:45
- 16 Chapter XVI -- Beche de Mer English15:39
- 17 Chapter XVII -- The Amateur M.D.39:03
- 18 Back Word10:04
