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The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London

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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 kn...

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Jan 2, 2026

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Episodes

01 – Foreword 02.01.2026

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02 – The Inconceivable And Monstrous 01.01.2026

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03 – Adventure 31.12.2025

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04 – Finding One’s Way About 30.12.2025

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05 – The First Landfall 29.12.2025

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06 – A Royal Sport 28.12.2025

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07 – The Lepers Of Molokai 27.12.2025

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08 – The House Of The Sun 26.12.2025

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09 – A Pacific Traverse 25.12.2025

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10 – Typee 24.12.2025

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11 – The Nature Man 23.12.2025

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12 – The High Seat of Abundance 22.12.2025

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13 – The Stone-fishing of Bora Bora 21.12.2025

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14 – The Amateur Navigator 20.12.2025

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15 – Cruising in the Solomons 19.12.2025

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16 – Beche de Mer English 18.12.2025

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17 – The Amateur M.D. 17.12.2025

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18 – Backword 16.12.2025

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