Amazon.com description: Product Description: Large 8vo. xi, 351 pp, acknowledgments, 1. A Discarded Wife; 2. Prince of the Oyster Pirates; 3. The Hobo in Theory and in Practice; 4. Snowshoes, Sleds, and Sourdoughs; 5. The Salt of the Earth; 6. Race Epic Without a Race; 7. War on the Classes; 8. The Dominant Primordial Beast; 9. The Cult of Red Blood; 10. Childie Upstages the Yellow Peril; 11. The Wolf, the Greek--and Plagiarism; 12. Socialist on the Speaker's Trail; 13. Snarking on the South Seas; 14. One Foot on a Brass Rail; 15. The Ranch of Good Intentions; 16. From Vera Cruz to Tinsel- Town; 17. Where Is Time Gone?; notes, bibliography, index. First Edition, 1981. First Edition, 1981. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. "Delving beneath the romantic facade, the author brings to light the real Jack London, the man and the author, whose bizarre quirks and contradictions make the private man a far more complex and challenging personality than the public image conveyed." from the jacket flap.