Adventure

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9781775418719

Though novelist Jack London is best known for the paean to natural wonder that is The Call of the Wild, he had an activist side, as well. In Adventure, London describes and skewers the plantation system of The Solomon Islands in a devastating take-down that is equal parts adventure tale and social justice tract.

Table of contents

• Title
• Contents
• Chapter I - Something to Be Done
• Chapter II - Something is Done
• Chapter III - The Jessie
• Chapter IV - Joan Lackland
• Chapter V - She Would a Planter Be
• Chapter VI - Tempest
• Chapter VII - A Hard-Bitten Gang
• Chapter VIII - Local Colour
• Chapter IX - As Between a Man and a Woman
• Chapter X - A Message from Boucher
• Chapter XI - The Port Adams Crowd
• Chapter XII - Mr. Morgan and Mr. Raff
• Chapter XIII - The Logic of Youth
• Chapter XIV - The Martha
• Chapter XV - A Discourse on Manners
• Chapter XVI - The Girl Who Had Not Grown Up
• Chapter XVII - "Your" Miss Lackland
• Chapter XVIII - Making the Books Come True
• Chapter XIX - The Lost Toy
• Chapter XX - A Man-Talk
• Chapter XXI - Contraband
• Chapter XXII - Gogoomy Finishes Along Kwaque Altogether
• Chapter XXIII - A Message from the Bush
• Chapter XXIV - In the Bush
• Chapter XXV - The Head-Hunters
• Chapter XXVI - Burning Daylight
• Chapter XXVII - Modern Duelling
• Chapter XXVIII - Capitulation
• Endnotes