Jack London, seal-skinner (1893)
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 26/08/2009
On this day in 1893, a 17-year-old Jack London returned to San Francisco after a seal-hunting expedition on the Sophia Sutherland. He left a 17-year-old greenhorn whose experience with boats was limited to sailing in San Francisco Bay. The ship had traveled to Hawaii, the remote islands off Japan, the Bering Straits, and Alaska. On their way out, the ship encountered a heavy storm in which he was lashed...