Sunday Firesides: Make It Past the Port

As a young man, Jack London joined the crew of a schooner bound for seal hunting in the Pacific.

When his ship pulled into port in the Bonin Islands, Jack gazed with wonder upon the jungle-covered volcanic peaks and breathed in the exotic scent of the tropics. “It was my first foreign land,” he remembered. “I had won to the other side of the world, and I…