This nonfiction book is considered by some to be a brilliant piece of journalism. From the author's preface: "The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902. I went down into the under-world of London with an attitude of mind which I may best liken to that of the explorer."

The conditions London experienced and wrote about were the same as those endured by an estimated 500,000 of the contemporary London poor.

Author: Jack London
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Aegypan
Published: 08/01/2006
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781598181524
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
London, Jack: - "John Griffith Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories To Build a Fire, An Odyssey of the North and Love of Life. He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as The Pearls of Parlay and The Heathen, and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf."