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A Son Of The Sun
Jack London
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With several deft strokes of his heavy-backed sheath-knife, Grief clipped a triangular piece of shell from the end of a husked drinking-cocoa-nut. The thin, cool liquid, slightly milky and effervescent, bubbled to the brim. With a bow, Pankburn took the natural cup, threw his head back, and held it back till the shell was empty. He drank many of these nuts each day. The black steward, a New Hebrides boy sixty years of age, and his assistant, a Lark Islander of eleven, saw to it that he was continually supplied.
Pankburn did not object to the hard work. He devoured work, never shirking and always beating the native sailors in jumping to obey a command. But his sufferings during the period of driving the alcohol out of his system were truly heroic. Even when the last shred of the poison was exuded, the desire, as an obsession, remained in his head. So it was, when, on his honour, he went ashore at Apia, that he attempted to pu. . . Read More
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Jack London does not disappoint. While his obvious admiration of calm, strong, self-collected men is omnipresent, he tells a good story and one with a punch to it. This is a collection of stories set in the South Seas, starring a millionaire merchant adventurer by the name of Captain David Grief. A
Quyển này đã có bản dịch tiếng việt là "Đứa con của mặt trời"
Về nội dung thì về những chuyến phiêu lưu trên biển của một gã tên David Grief. Cuốn này Jack London chỉ tập trung tả cảnh các vùng đất mà David Grief đi qua, còn tình tiết, cốt truyện khá ít và không đặc sắc lắm. Hơi khác phong cách thườ
This novel is a collection of eight short stories about David Grief, an English adventurer.
The stories themselves were not too bad. I would have given this novel a three if the stories weren't filled with racism. I'm not sure London did a great job doing the necessary research to make the stories be
Definitely not Jack London's best stuff but the stories are all pretty brief and can be read quickly... it felt more like a "stories for boys..." book at times and it would've appealed a lot more to 12-year-old me instead of 47-yer-old Jason.
Second-tier shorts by a master storyteller. Only "Pearls of Parlay" rises above mere adventure. The rest of the tales are good for a beach read, perhaps the airport or dentist office.
david grief is an interesting character to read.he is a captain and travels and with his wit and charm manages to escape from even the trickiest situations he finds himself in.its interesting to read of his adventures,how he goes about them,with a bit of humor and lots of entertainment.just didnt ex
3.5 για την ακρίβεια.
Μικρές ιστορίες όπου πρωταγωνιστεί η ηρωική φιγούρα του Ντέιβιντ Γκρηφ, τοποθετημένες στις ακτές του Νότιου Ειρηνικού στις αρχές του 20ου αιώνα. Ευχάριστο αλλά όχι τίποτα ιδιαίτερο...more
Some of these stories appear in other Jack London collections, but until this well-researched edition came out there was nowhere to get them all in one book. These David Grief stories are a pleasure to read: a truly heroic hero, exotic settings, well-crafted characters, language at once crisp and de