Jack London Audio Books

"Brian Emerson contributes a well-paced reading and an authentic range of voices.
His David Grief is just right: self-assured and always in control."AudioFile

Captain David Grief, South Pacific tycoon, owns plantations and trading stations from
New Guinea to Samoa, pearling fisheries in the Paumotus, and rubber acreages in the Louisiades.
His own vessels recruit contract labor, and he operates three steamers on ocean runs. He came to
the South Seas at the age of twenty and, blessed with a blond skin impervious to tropical rays,
became browner through two decades as a true "son of the sun." At forty years of age, he looks no
more than thirty. His manifold enterprises flourish. His is the golden touch. But he plays the South
Sea game not for the gold but for the game's sake and for the daring life of the island rover.

This book, originally published as A Son of the Sun, gives David Grief's adventures through eight
long tales of danger and daring told in Jack London's graphic and colorful style.

Born in San Francisco in 1876, Jack London never knew who his father was. His name came from his stepfather, John Griffith London. The family was poor, and London's early education has been described as "spotty," though he read voraciously. To help the family, he held many different jobs, from peddling papers to working in a cannery. At nineteen, he entered high school, followed by one semester of college. In 1897, London hunted for gold in the Klondike and returned with scurvy and story ideas. By 1899, his work was selling briskly. At one time he was acclaimed the highest paid writer in the world, but bad investments and an inability to manage his money kept London poor throughout his life. In 1916, at age forty, he died on his beloved ranch near Sonoma, California.