 First edition | |
| Author | Jack London |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Macmillan |
Publication date | 1911 |
| Pages | 327 |
South Sea Tales (1911) is a collection of short stories written by Jack London. Most stories are set in island communities, like those of Hawaii, or are set aboard a ship.
List of Stories
- The House of Mapuhi
- The Whale Tooth
- Mauki
- "Yah! Yah! Yah!"
- The Heathen
- The Terrible Solomons
- The Inevitable White Man
- The Seed of McCoy
The Pyrenees a bark whose story inspired The Seed of McCoy[1]
References
- ↑ Vallejo, Joe (2020). "The Seed of McCoy". Vallejo. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
Launched in 1891 as Pyrenees, this vessel acquired a solid reputation as a profitable carrier over the first nine years of her career. In November 1900, while on a passage from Tacoma, Washington to Leith, Scotland, her cargo of wheat caught fire due to spontaneous combustion. Her commander, Captain Robert Bryce, made for Pitcairn Island. Upon finding no suitable place to beach the vessel at Pitcairn, Bryce took on local pilot James 'Big Hunty' McCoy, great grandson of Bounty Mutineer William McCoy, and sailed another 300 miles to Manga Reva in the Tuamotu Islands. There Pyrenees was beached and abandoned on December 2. This incident was the subject of Jack London's popular short story The Seed of McCoy.
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
- London, Jack (2006). Gary Riedl; Thomas R. Tietze (eds.). Jack London's tales of cannibals and headhunters: nine South Seas stories by America's master of adventure. UNM Press. pp. 33–37. ISBN 0-8263-3791-0. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
External links
South Sea Tales public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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