Published in the wake of his wildly successful novel The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf in many ways reveals how much more calculating, cruel, and unbound by rules human beings are compared to animals. In Voyage of the Sea Wolf, the continuing sage of Catherines sea adventures, she and William are rescured from their island prison by the Sea Wolf, a pirate ship pursuing the Repri. The books protagonist, Humphrey Van Weyden, is a literary critic who. Swept out to sea following a crash, literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued by Wolf Larsen, the brutal and cynical captain of the seal-hunting vessel the ghost rather than return Van Weyden to safety, Larsen forces the scholar into servitude facing isolation and brutal conditions, the two intellectual men begin a psychological battle at sea. The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. "The Sea Wolf is a psychological adventure novel about a literary critic and other survivors of an ocean collision who come under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues them" (USF).
Second issue with spine lettering in white and both 19 dates on the copyright page. Wolf Larsen, vicious and brutal despite his great intelligence, captains the seal-hunting schooner, the Ghost, ruling over his crew with a rod of iron. A lovely, Near Fine copy with a touch of rubbing to the illustration on title lettering on the front board, otherwise clean and fresh.
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