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full of gaudy calico, bound for Bora Bora. Wada San, the Japanese cook, sailed on April 11 th for Honolulu.
    Martin Johnson left Sydney on March 31 st , on the steamer Asturias, after an unsuccessful attempt to join the South African expedition of Theodore Roosevelt. His letter did not reach Mr. Roosevelt until after all preparations for the trip had been made, when it was of course too late to consider his application. . . . At Port Said, Mr. Johnson made another attempt to get in communication with the Roosevelt party, but found that they had left three days before. . . . At Liverpool, early in September, he stowed away on a cattle-boat, and after a trying thirteen days arrived in Boston, the only member of the Snark crew to make the complete circuit of the world.
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    Jack returned a chastened yachtsman, if not a well man. He wrote two of his most successful sea-pieces after his return—“That Dead Men Rise Up Never” (1909) and “The Joy of Small-Boat Sailing” (1911). Once the Snark essays had had their periodical run, Jack assembled them into The Cruise of the Snark (1911). Two years later, Martin finished his book, Through the South Seas With Jack London (1913). Shortly afterwards he eloped with his own mate, Osa, and in 1937, after a short but happy life filled with adventure, Martin was killed in a plane crash. In 1915, a year before Jack’s death, Charmian published her own book, The Log of the Snark, calling it “the one accurate, continuous story of the adventures of the Snark, from San Francisco Bay to the Cannibal Isles.” It may have been.

Suggestions for Further Reading

BOOKS BY JACK LONDON:
    Adventure. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1911.
    Martin Eden, ed. Andrew Sinclair. New York: Penguin Classics, 1993.
    Sea-Wolf and Other Stories, The, ed. Andrew Sinclair. New York: Penguin Classics, 1989.
    Tales of the Pacific, ed. Andrew Sinclair. New York: Penguin Classics, 1989.

BOOKS BY OTHERS:
    Childers, Erskine. The Riddle of the Sands, ed. Geoffrey Household. Penguin Classics, 1978.
    Herbert, T. Walter. Marquesan Encounters. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
    Johnson, Irving and Electa. Westward Bound in the Schooner Yankee. New York: Norton, 1936.
    Johnson, Martin. Through the South Seas With Jack London. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913.
    London, Charmian Kittredge. The Log of the Snark. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915.
    Melville, Herman. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, ed. Harrison Hayford et al. Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern University Press and The Newberry Library, 1968.
    Porter, David. Journal of a Cruise, ed. R. D. Madison and Karen Hamon. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1986.
    Slocum, Joshua. Sailing Alone around the World, ed. Thomas Philbrick. Penguin Classics, 1999.
    Stevenson, Robert Louis. In the South Seas, ed. Neil Rennie. Penguin Classics, 1998.

A Note on the Texts
    The text for this edition of The Cruise of the Snark is that of the first American edition published by Macmillan in 1911. The collateral Snark texts printed in the appendix are from Martin Johnson, Through the South Seas With Jack London (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913) and Charmian Kittredge London, The Log of the Snark (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915). The text of “That Dead Men Rise Up Never” is based on that in The Human Drift (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917); the text of “The Joy of Small Boat Sailing” is based on that in Country Life in America (August 1, 1912).

THE CRUISE OF THE SNARK
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TO
CHARMIAN
THE MATE OF THE SNARK
WHO TOOK THE WHEEL, NIGHT OR DAY, WHEN ENTERING
OR LEAVING PORT OR RUNNING A PASSAGE, WHO
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