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The Mutiny of the Elsinore

Jack London

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This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 and the glory days of “wooden ships and iron men” are long over. The Elsinore is a four-masted iron sailing vessel carrying a cargo of 5000 tons of coal. She has a “bughouse” crew of misfits and incompetents.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .d by what seems the very conspicuous awe with which Mr. Pike seems to regard his commander.

Another thing.  What are Captain West’s duties?  So far he has done nothing, save eat three times a day, smoke many cigars, and each day stroll a total of one mile around the poop.  The mates do all the work, and hard work it is, four hours on deck and four below, day and night with never a variation.  I watch Captain West and am amazed.  He will loll back in the cabin and stare straight before him for hours at a time, until I am almost frantic to demand of him what are his thoughts.  Sometimes I doubt that he is thinking at all.  I give him up.  I cannot fathom him.

Altogether a depressing day of rain-splatter and wash of water across the deck.  I can see, now, that the problem of sailing a ship with five thousand tons of coal around the Horn is more serious than I had thought.  So deep is the Elsinore in th. . . Read More

Community Reviews

I first read this book as a young man, and loved it. Coming back to it after nearly 40 years, I still do. But it does raise questions about Jack London and what was going on in his head when he wrote it.

Published in 1914, only two years before his death, The Mutiny of the Elsinore isn’t the most fa

A quick insight into ship side dynamics, at the end of the era of sailing cargo. Gives us an insight into the most recent heritage of seamen.

Jack London a fost scriitor si jurnalist american fiind celebru pentru opere precum "The call of the wild", "White fang", "Smoke Bellew", "War of the classes" etc. Cartile sale au fost foarte apreciate de tineret dar si de catre adulti abordand subiecte ca existenta cruda, salbaticia, lupta pentru s

Some of Jack London's books are better than others, but they are never bad, and he is often at his best on the water, though his stories of the Far North are also quite good. I loved The Sea Wolf and Tales of the Fish Patrol, and again in this book we find him on the ocean, this time at the end of t

La “Elsinore” (una nave carboniera), l’Oceano, il drammatico doppiaggio di Capo Horn e le difficili condizioni di vita della ciurma che sfoceranno in un ammutinamento fanno da corollario ai personaggi che animano questo racconto, un giovane scrittore annoiato dalla vita, Margaret West la figlia del

The Mutiny of the Elsinore is about a wealthy man by the name of Mr. Pathurst that decides to join in a journey around the Cape Horn. While Pathurst knows nothing about sailing he is quickly forced to develop his own pair of sea legs due to the fact that a mass-mutiny leaves him in charge of a crew

"Ce qui est sûr, pourtant, c'est que, quand votre heure viendra, vous finirez comme moi, dans la nuit. Et votre nuit sera aussi noire que la mienne !"

This book was ok. There's a lot of just sailing around without much happening. I did have trouble with the narrator's racism though. He frequently talks about the master race, the slave race, and the superiority of "blondes." I realize that maybe those were just the beliefs of the character and not

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