"Born in San Francisco as John Griffith Chaney on January 12, 1876, he was an illegitimate child. His biological father never acknowledged paternity, shunning his mother while she was still pregnant. She would later marry Civil War veteran John London, who took him in as his stepson and gave him his surname. London grew up in severe financial hardship. From an early age, he left school and took up multiple jobs to help support his family."
"As a teenager, he illegally harvested oysters in the San Francisco Bay before jumping sides to join the San Francisco Bay fishery patrol, where he pursued illegal oyster harvesters such as himself. At age 17, he worked on a seal hunting ship that sailed around Japan and the South Pacific. Jack London loved to read from a young ageImage: akg-images/picture alliance A man with a calling Those experiences shaped his worldview, as did reading, which fascinated him from childhood."
Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco on January 12, 1876, as an illegitimate child whose biological father never acknowledged paternity. His mother married Civil War veteran John London, who gave him his surname. Severe financial hardship forced him to leave school early and take jobs as a paperboy and in saloons and factories. He illegally harvested oysters, later joined the San Francisco Bay fishery patrol, and at 17 worked on a seal hunting ship around Japan and the South Pacific. He experienced drifter life, jail, a brief college stint, hard labor shoveling coal, and self-education in Marx and Darwin, which forged a strong political consciousness he later expressed publicly.
Read at www.dw.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]