Helen’s Reviews > Jack London: Magnet for Adventure > Status Update

What a life! He’s 19 and he’s already run the rails, been an “oyster pirate” stealing oysters by San Francisco Bay, worked and fought in the dockyards, become a socialist — swearing off wage slavery forever. He supported his family when he was about eight; he studied and got into UC Berkeley without finishing high school. Now he’s in the Klondike during the vanguard of the Gold Rush!