JACK LONDON: Sailor on Horseback [Hardcover]

Irving Stone (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Doubleday (February 3, 1978)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385140843
• ISBN-13: 978-0385140843
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #588,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars In some ways more adventurous than Jack London's tales., December 6, 1997

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This review is from: Sailor on Horseback: The Biography of Jack London (Library Binding)

Irving Stone, in his insight and convincing recreation of historically influential people and days of yore bringing them once again alive and present, brought Jack London's life, family, physical surroundings and love of adventure out in such a way that I never wanted to see it end.

I have read many of Stone's biographical novels from The Agony and The Ecstasy to Depths of Glory to Lust for Life all incredible adventures of creative geniuses who struggled in many ways but understood that their creative mediums must be expressed. Sailor On Horseback is no different but one of Stone's lesser-known and should not be forgotton. I was discouraged to find that I must wait for a copy but found twice the wait would have been worth it.

There are many points in this biography which encouraged me to go back and reread Jack London's novels and short stories as if for the first time. For after reading Stone's depiction of London's self-reliant and rare view of the world his stories took on a new breath and meaning I never encountered the first time around.