South Sea Tales (London collection)

For the collection by Robert Louis Stevenson, see Island Nights' Entertainments.

South Sea Tales

First edition
Author	Jack London
Language	English
Publisher	Macmillan
Publication date	1911
Publication place	United States
Pages	327

South Sea Tales (1911) is a collection of short stories written by Jack London. Most stories are set in island communities, like those of Hawaii, or are set aboard a ship.

List of Stories

• The House of Mapuhi
• The Whale Tooth
• Mauki
• "Yah! Yah! Yah!"
• The Heathen
• The Terrible Solomons
• The Inevitable White Man
• The Seed of McCoy

The Pyrenees a bark whose story inspired The Seed of McCoy

References

1. Vallejo, Joe (2020). "The Seed of McCoy". Vallejo. Retrieved October 26, 2020. Launched in 1891 as Pyrenees, this vessel acquired a solid reputation as a profitable carrier over the first nine years of her career. In November 1900, while on a passage from Tacoma, Washington to Leith, Scotland, her cargo of wheat caught fire due to spontaneous combustion. Her commander, Captain Robert Bryce, made for Pitcairn Island. Upon finding no suitable place to beach the vessel at Pitcairn, Bryce took on local pilot James 'Big Hunty' McCoy, great grandson of Bounty Mutineer William McCoy, and sailed another 300 miles to Manga Reva in the Tuamotu Islands. There Pyrenees was beached and abandoned on December 2. This incident was the subject of Jack London's popular short story The Seed of McCoy.

• London, Jack (2006). Gary Riedl; Thomas R. Tietze (eds.). Jack London's tales of cannibals and headhunters: nine South Seas stories by America's master of adventure. UNM Press. pp. 33–37. ISBN   0-8263-3791-0 . Retrieved September 28, 2011.

External links

• South Sea Tales public domain audiobook at LibriVox