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Wolf: The Lives of Jack London

Boozer, brawler, prospector, tramp, pirate, adventurer and campaigner for social justice, Jack London was all of those things, but much more.

Born fatherless into a dirt poor working-class Californian family in 1876, London was growing up as his country was attempting to raise itself from the dust of what became known as the Long Depression of 1873-79.