Adventure
Jack London
Adventure
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Though novelist Jack London is best known for the paean to natural wonder that is The Call of the Wild, he had an activist side, as well. In Adventure, London describes and skewers the plantation system of The Solomon Islands in a devastating take-down that is equal parts adventure tale and social justice tract.

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Adventure, by Jack London
ADVENTURE
CHAPTER I—SOMETHING TO BE DONE
CHAPTER II—SOMETHING IS DONE
CHAPTER III—THE JESSIE
CHAPTER IV—JOAN LACKLAND
CHAPTER V—SHE WOULD A PLANTER BE
CHAPTER VI—TEMPEST
CHAPTER VII—A HARD-BITTEN GANG
CHAPTER VIII—LOCAL COLOUR
CHAPTER IX—AS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN
CHAPTER X—A MESSAGE FROM BOUCHER
CHAPTER XI—THE PORT ADAMS CROWD
CHAPTER XII—MR. MORGAN AND MR. RAFF
CHAPTER XIII—THE LOGIC OF YOUTH
CHAPTER XIV—THE MARTHA
CHAPTER XV—A DISCOURSE ON MANNERS
CHAPTER XVI—THE GIRL WHO HAD NOT GROWN UP
CHAPTER XVII—“YOUR” MISS LACKLAND
CHAPTER XVIII—MAKING THE BOOKS COME TRUE
CHAPTER XIX—THE LOST TOY
CHAPTER XX—A MAN-TALK
CHAPTER XXI—CONTRABAND
CHAPTER XXII—GOGOOMY FINISHES ALONG KWAQUE ALTOGETHER
CHAPTER XXIII—A MESSAGE FROM THE BUSH
CHAPTER XXIV—IN THE BUSH
CHAPTER XXV—THE HEAD-HUNTERS
CHAPTER XXVI—BURNING DAYLIGHT
CHAPTER XXVII—MODERN DUELLING
CHAPTER XXVIII—CAPITULATION
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