The Cruise of the Snark by Jack LONDON (1876 - 1916)
Genre(s): Memoirs

Read by: Bryan Ness, Todd Lennon, Pam Burton, Roger Melin, Jim Allman, kayo in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Chapter I -- Foreword
00:22:23 - 02 - Chapter II -- The Inconceivable And Monstrous
00:53:55 - 03 - Chapter III -- Adventure
01:11:20 - 04 - Chapter IV -- Finding One's Way About
01:34:33 - 05 - Chapter V -- The First Landfall
01:49:44 - 06 - Chapter VI -- A Royal Sport
02:14:05 - 07 - Chapter VII -- The Lepers Of Molokai
02:44:47 - 08 - Chapter VIII -- The House Of The Sun
03:13:53 - 09 - Chapter IX -- A Pacific Traverse
03:49:43 - 10 - Chapter X -- Typee
04:20:35 - 11 - Chapter XI -- The Nature Man
04:48:24 - 12 - Chapter XII -- The High Seat of Abundance
05:26:53 - 13 - Chapter XIII -- The Stone-fishing of Bora Bora
05:42:09 - 14 - Chapter XIV -- The Amateur Navigator
06:22:14 - 15 - Chapter XV -- Cruising in the Solomons
07:00:59 - 16 - Chapter XVI -- Beche de Mer English
07:16:38 - 17 - Chapter XVII -- The Amateur M.D.
07:55:42 - 18 - Back Word

The Cruise of the Snark (1913) is a memoir of Jack and Charmian London's 1907-1909 voyage across the Pacific. His descriptions of 'surf-riding', which he dubbed a 'royal sport', helped introduce it to and popularize it with the mainland. London writes:Through the white crest of a breaker suddenly appears a dark figure, erect, a man-fish or a sea-god, on the very forward face of the crest where the top falls over and down, driving in toward shore, buried to his loins in smoking spray, caught up by the sea and flung landward, bodily, a quarter of a mile. It is a Kanaka on a surf-board. And I know that when I have finished these lines I shall be out in that riot of colour and pounding surf, trying to bit those breakers even as he, and failing as he never failed, but living life as the best of us may live it.Excerpted from Wikipedia.

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