South Sea Tales (London collection)

South Sea Tales
	First edition
Author	Jack London
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Macmillan
Publication date	1911
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[]

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The Heathen
The Seed of McCoy

The Pyrenees a bark whose story inspired The Seed of McCoy^[1]

References[]

^ Vallejo, Joe (2020). "The Seed of McCoy". Vallejo. Retrieved 26 October 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 2011-09-28.

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[Vallejo-1] Vallejo, Joe (2020). "The Seed of McCoy". Vallejo. Retrieved 26 October 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.

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v t Jack London
Novels	The Cruise of the Dazzler (1902) A Daughter of the Snows (1902) The Call of the Wild (1903) The Kempton-Wace Letters (1903, anonymously co-authored with Anna Strunsky) The Sea-Wolf (1904) The Game (1905) Before Adam (1906) White Fang (1906) The Iron Heel (1908) Martin Eden (1909) Burning Daylight (1910) Adventure (1911) The Scarlet Plague (1912) A Son of the Sun (1912) The Abysmal Brute (1913) The Valley of the Moon (1913) The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1914) The Star Rover (1915) The Little Lady of the Big House (1916) Jerry of the Islands (1917) Michael, Brother of Jerry (1917) Hearts of Three (1920) The Assassination Bureau, Ltd (1963) (Unfinished, completed by Robert L. Fish)
Short stories	"A Thousand Deaths" (1899) "The Law of Life" (1901) "Bâtard" (1902) "Moon-Face" (1902) "The Leopard Man's Story" (1903) "To Build a Fire" (1908) "The Dream of Debs" (1909) "A Piece of Steak" (1909) "The South of the Slot" (1909) "The Heathen" (1910) "The Mexican" (1911) "The Unparalleled Invasion" (1914) "The Red One" (1918)
Story collections	Lost Face (1910) South Sea Tales (1911)
Non-fiction	The People of the Abyss (1903) The Road (1907) The Cruise of the Snark (1911) John Barleycorn (1913)
Related	Charmian London (second wife) Joan London (daughter) Jack London State Historic Park Wolf House Jack London Square Jack London Lake Mount London Jack London (1943 film)