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{{Short description|1911 book by Jack London}}
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[[File:TheCruiseOfTheSnark.jpg|thumb|First edition (publ. [[Macmillan Publishers (United States)|Macmillan]])]]
[[File:TheCruiseOfTheSnark.jpg|thumb|First edition (publ. [[Macmillan Publishers (United States)|Macmillan]])]]
'''''The Cruise of the Snark''''' (1911)<ref name="CruiseSnark">{{cite book |last=London |first=Jack |title=The Cruise of the Snark |year=1911 |publisher="The Macmillan company" |url=http://books.google.com/?id=3REJt-9gfm8C&printsec=titlepage|accessdate=2008-01-16}}</ref> is a non-fictional, illustrated book by [[Jack London]] chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south [[Pacific]] in his [[ketch]] the ''Snark''. Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife [[Charmian London]] and a small crew. London taught himself [[celestial navigation]] and the basics of sailing and of boats during the course of this adventure and describes these details to the reader. He visits exotic locations including the [[Solomon Islands]] and [[Hawaii]], and his first-person accounts and photographs provide insight into these remote places at the beginning of the 20th century.
'''''The Cruise of the Snark''''' (1911)<ref name="CruiseSnark">{{cite book |last=London |first=Jack |title=The Cruise of the Snark |year=1911 |work=The Macmillan company |url=https://archive.org/details/cruisesnark00londgoog|accessdate=2008-01-16}}</ref> is a non-fictional, illustrated book by [[Jack London]] chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south [[Pacific]] in his [[ketch]] the ''Snark''. Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife [[Charmian London]] and a small crew. London taught himself [[celestial navigation]] and the basics of sailing and of boats during the course of this adventure and describes these details to the reader. He visits exotic locations including the [[Solomon Islands]] and [[Hawaii]], and his first-person accounts and photographs provide insight into these remote places at the beginning of the 20th century.


==About the ''Snark''==
==About the ''Snark''==
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In 1906, Jack London began to build a 45-foot yacht on which he planned a round-the-world voyage, to last seven years.
In 1906, Jack London began to build a 45-foot yacht on which he planned a round-the-world voyage, to last seven years.


The ''Snark'' was named after [[Lewis Carroll]]'s poem ''[[The Hunting of the Snark]]''.<ref name=SnarkLog/> It had two masts and was 43 feet long at the waterline, and on it London claimed to have spent thirty thousand dollars. It was primarily a sailboat, however, it also had an auxiliary 70-horsepower engine. It was further equipped with one lifeboat.
The ''Snark'' was named after [[Lewis Carroll]]'s 1876 poem ''[[The Hunting of the Snark]]''. She had two masts and was 45 feet long at the waterline<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2512/2512-h/2512-h.htm|title=The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London}}</ref> and 55 feet on deck,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boatus.com/magazine/2016/december/jack-london-sailor.asp|title=Jack London: Sailor|website=BoatUS website}}</ref> and London claimed to have spent thirty thousand dollars on her construction. She was primarily sail power; however, she also had an auxiliary 70-horsepower engine. She carried one lifeboat.


After many delays, Jack and Charmian London and a small crew sailed out of [[San Francisco Bay]] on April 23, 1907, bound for the South Pacific.<ref>Jack London http://www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/snark.html</ref>
After many delays, Jack and Charmian London and a small crew sailed out of [[San Francisco Bay]] on April 23, 1907, bound for the South Pacific.<ref>Jack London {{cite web |url=http://www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/snark.html |title=Jack London at the Huntington Library-Cruise of the Snark |accessdate=2012-06-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080109112544/http://www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/snark.html |archivedate=2008-01-09 }}</ref>


[[Image:Snark JackLondon.gif|400px|thumb|none|Caption: 'The Nature Man comes on Board the Snark' pg 180]]
[[Image:Snark JackLondon.gif|400px|thumb|right|Caption: "The Nature Man comes on Board the Snark", p. 180]]


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One of London's crew members was young [[Martin and Osa Johnson|Martin Johnson]] from Kansas. Following the cruise of the ''Snark'', Martin became an adventurer and world traveler, making some of the earliest motion pictures of unexplored or less-explored areas and peoples of the earth.<ref name = "Johnson">Johnson, Osa, ''I Married Adventure'', first published 1940, reprint by Kodansha Globe, New York (1997).</ref>
<blockquote>
"We ran down the [[Langa Langa Lagoon]], between mangrove swamps through passages scarcely wider than the Minota, and passed the reef villages of Kaloka and [[Auki]]. Like the founders of Venice, these salt-water men were originally refugees from the mainland. Too weak to hold their own in the bush, survivors of village massacres, they fled to the sand-banks of the lagoon. These sand-banks they built up into islands. They were compelled to seek their provender from the sea. They developed canoe-bodies, unable to walk about, spending all their time in the canoes, they became thick-armed and broad-shouldered with narrow waists and frail spindly legs" (p 138)<ref name="wealth">{{cite book |title=The Cruise of the Snark|author=[[Jack London]] |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=3REJt-9gfm8C&printsec=titlepage |year=1911 |publisher=Harvard University Digitized January 19, 2006}}</ref>
</blockquote>


The anchor, banister ropes, and oars from ''Snark'' were incorporated into the Los Feliz estate of conductor John A. Van Pelt built in the 1930s. The anchor from ''Snark'' was made into a chandelier and the oars were used as balcony beams.<ref>https://www.curbed.com/2020/7/24/21325372/storybook-cottage-van-pelt-compound-for-sale-los-feliz {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726145822/https://www.curbed.com/2020/7/24/21325372/storybook-cottage-van-pelt-compound-for-sale-los-feliz |date=2020-07-26 }} Five-Cottage Storybook Compound in Los Feliz Returns to Market After 45 Years</ref>
<blockquote>
"I sailed in the teak-built ketch, the Minota, on a [[blackbirding]] cruise to Malaita, and I took my wife along. The hatchet-marks were still raw on the door of our tiny stateroom advertising an event of a few months before. The event was the taking of Captain Mackenzie's head, Captain Mackenzie, at that time, being master of the Minota.... As we sailed in to Langa-Langa on the shore side of the lagoon, was Binu, the place where the Minota was captured a year previously and her captain killed by the bushmen of Malaita, having been hacked to pieces and eaten" (p 135)<ref>http://ia360904.us.archive.org/3/items/logofsnark00londrich/logofsnark00londrich.pdf Log of the Stark</ref>
</blockquote>


The log of the ''Snark'' states:
==Locations visited by the ''Snark''==
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[[File:Jack London the building of The Snark 1906.jpg|thumb|right|170px|Jack London at the building of the ''Snark'' in 1906.]]

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"..still bore the tomahawk marks where the [[Malaita]]ns at Langa Langa several months before broke in for the trove of rifles and ammunition locked therein, after bloodily slaughtering Jansen's predecessor, Captain Mackenzie. The burning of the vessel was somehow prevented by the black crew, but this was so unprecedented that the owner feared some complicity between them and the attacking party. However, it could not be proved, and we sailed with the majority of this same crew. The present skipper smilingly warned us that the same tribe still required two more heads from the Minota, to square up for deaths on the [[Isabel Province|Ysabel]] plantation. (p 387)
<ref>https://archive.org/stream/logofsnark00londrich/logofsnark00londrich_djvu.txt The Log of the Stark</ref>
</blockquote>

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One of London's crew members was young [[Martin and Osa Johnson|Martin Johnson]] from Kansas. Following the cruise of the ''Snark'', Martin became an adventurer and world traveler, making some of the earliest motion pictures of unexplored or less-explored areas and peoples of the earth.<ref name = "Johnson">Johnson, Osa, ''I Married Adventure'', first published 1940, reprint by Kodansha Globe, New York (1997).</ref>

==Locations Visited by the ''Snark''==
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[[File:Jack London the building of The Snark 1906.jpg|thumb|right|170px|Jack London at the building of ''The Snark'' in 1906.]]
* [[San Francisco]]{{spaced ndash}}The ''Snark'' first set sail out of [[San Francisco]] on April 23, 1907 following construction and several months of delay.
* [[San Francisco]]{{spaced ndash}}The ''Snark'' first set sail out of [[San Francisco]] on April 23, 1907 following construction and several months of delay.
* [[Hawaii]]{{spaced ndash}}While in Hawaii, London learned the "Royal Sport" of [[surfing]], visited the [[Leper]] colony on [[Molokai]] and traveled by horseback on [[Maui]] around [[Haleakala]] and to [[Hana, Hawaii|Hana]].
* [[Hawaii]]{{spaced ndash}}While in Hawaii, London learned the "Royal Sport" of [[surfing]], visited the [[Leper]] colony on [[Molokai]] and traveled by horseback on [[Maui]] up and across [[Haleakala]] and to [[Hana, Hawaii|Hana]].
* [[Marquesas Islands]] including the island of [[Taiohae|Taiohee]]
* [[Marquesas Islands]] including the island of [[Taiohae|Taiohee]]
* [[Tahiti]] including the town of [[Papeete]], and the islands of [[Raiatea]],
* [[Tahiti]] including the town of [[Papeete]], and the islands of [[Raiatea]],
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* Australia
* Australia


The Londons ended their voyage at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands and travelled to [[Sydney]] on the steamer SS ''Makambo''. Jack spent five weeks in a hospital recovering from infections and illness. A skeleton crew brought the ''Snark'' from the Solomons to Australia where she was sold for a fraction of the build-costs. The Londons departed Australia on the SS ''Tymeric'', bound for Ecuador April 8, 1909.
London ended his voyage in [[Sydney]], spending five weeks in a hospital recovering from an illness.


==Media coverage==
==Media coverage==
London's voyage garnered some media attention from the point when he first set out into the Pacific.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Jack London Starts on a Long Cruise |date=April 24, 1907 |journal=The New York Times |url=http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A0DE1D6123EE033A25757C2A9629C946697D6CF |accessdate=2008-03-17 | format=PDF |postscript=<!--None-->}}</ref> Concern was raised that the ''Snark'' might be lost when London failed to arrive in the Marquesas Islands on schedule.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=FEAR JACK LONDON IS LOST IN PACIFIC |journal=The New York Times |date=January 10, 1908 |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A04E0DE1639E333A25753C1A9679C946997D6CF|accessdate=2008-03-17 |postscript=<!--None--> }}</ref>
London's voyage garnered some media attention from the point when he first set out into the Pacific.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Jack London Starts on a Long Cruise |date=April 24, 1907 |journal=The New York Times |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/04/24/106749686.pdf |accessdate=2008-03-17 }}</ref> Concern was raised that the ''Snark'' might be lost when London failed to arrive in the Marquesas Islands on schedule.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=FEAR JACK LONDON IS LOST IN PACIFIC |journal=The New York Times |date=January 10, 1908 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A04E0DE1639E333A25753C1A9679C946997D6CF|accessdate=2008-03-17 }}</ref>

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==Related works==


Jack London's ''The Lepers of Molokai'' first appeared as articles in the ''Woman's Home Companion'' (1908) and the ''Contemporary Review'' (1909).<ref>{{cite web |title =The Huntington Library: Tales from the South Pacific |url=http://www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/pacific.html |accessdate = 2008-01-25 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080109112523/http://www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/pacific.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = January 9, 2008}}</ref> Additional essays from the voyage also appeared in ''[[The Pacific Monthly]]'' and ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'' prior to publication of the ''Cruise of the Snark.''<ref>{{cite web |title =The Huntington Library: The Cruise of the Snark|url=http://www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/snark.html |accessdate = 2008-01-25 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080109112544/http://www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/snark.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = January 9, 2008}}</ref>
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==Related Works==


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[[Charmian Kittredge London]] subsequently wrote three books detailing their adventures aboard the ''Snark'' and their extended visits in Hawaii:
Jack London's "The Lepers of Molokai" first appeared as articles in the ''Woman's Home Companion'' (1908) and the ''Contemporary Review'' (1909).
<ref>{{cite web |title =The Huntington Library: Tales from the South Pacific |url=http://www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/pacific.html |accessdate = 2008-01-25 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080109112523/http://www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/pacific.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = January 9, 2008}}</ref>
Additional essays from the voyage also appeared in ''[[Pacific Monthly]]'' and ''[[Harper's Weekly]]'' prior to publication of the ''Cruise of the Snark.''
<ref>{{cite web |title =The Huntington Library: The Cruise of the Snark|url=http://www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/snark.html |accessdate = 2008-01-25 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080109112544/http://www.huntington.org/LibraryDiv/snark.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = January 9, 2008}}</ref>


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*''The Log of the Snark'' (1915)<ref name=SnarkLog>{{cite book |last=London |first=Charmian |title=The Log of the Snark |year=1915 |publisher=Macmillan|url=https://archive.org/details/logsnark00londgoog|quote=the log of the snark. |accessdate=2008-01-17}}</ref>
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Charmian London subsequently authored two novels detailing their adventures aboard the ''Snark'' and their extended visits in Hawaii:
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*''Our Hawaii'' (1917)<ref name=OurHawaii>{{cite book |last=London |first=Charmian |title=Our Hawaii |year=1917 |publisher=Macmillan|url=https://archive.org/details/ourhawaii00lond/page/n7|accessdate=5 November 2018}}</ref>
*''Our Hawaii: Islands and Islanders'' (1917)<ref name=HawaiiIslands>{{cite book |last=London |first=Charmian|title=Our Hawaii: Islands and Islanders |year=1922 |publisher=Macmillan|url=https://archive.org/details/ourhawaiiislands00lond/page/n7|accessdate=5 November 2018}}</ref>


These works provide daily details on the activities of the crew. A comparison with Jack London's book reveals how he highlighted episodes of most interest to his readers, such as surfing. Charmian London's books reveal much more description of the cultures they encountered, along with criticism of the effects of colonization.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tucker |first1=Amy |title=Charmian's 'One True' Log of the Snark |journal=Women's Studies |date=2017 |volume=46 |issue=4 |pages=362–387|doi=10.1080/00497878.2017.1302767 |s2cid=152005795 }}</ref> Tucker notes how Charmian distinguishes her accounts from prior women travelog writers in being the sole woman with an all-male crew. This leads to her close reading of gender and hierarchies throughout the voyage.
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*''The Log of the Snark'' (1915)<ref name=SnarkLog>{{cite book |last=London |first=Charmain Kittredge |title=The Log of the Snark |year=1915 |publisher="The Macmillan company"|url=http://books.google.com/?id=Lz1CAAAAIAAJ&dq=the+log+of+the+snark|accessdate=2008-01-17}}</ref>
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*''Our Hawaii'' (1917)<ref name=OurHawaii>{{cite book |last=London |first=Charmain Kittredge |title=Our Hawaii |year=1917 |publisher="Patten Company, Ltd." |url=http://books.google.com/?id=YJCpzADyFWMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Our+Hawaii|accessdate=2008-01-17}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2512 ''The Cruise of the Snark'' ebook online at Project Gutenberg]
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2512 ''The Cruise of the Snark'' ebook online at Project Gutenberg]
* {{librivox book | title=The Cruise of the Snark | author=Jack London}}
* {{librivox book | title=The Cruise of the Snark | author=Jack London}}
*[http://www.shapell.org/manuscript.aspx?jack-london-hardships-after-san-francisco-earthquake-1906-builds-snark Jack London After 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Builds The Snark: Original Letter] Shapell Manuscript Foundation
*[http://www.shapell.org/manuscript.aspx?jack-london-hardships-after-san-francisco-earthquake-1906-builds-snark Jack London After 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Builds The Snark: Original Letter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207174048/http://www.shapell.org/manuscript.aspx?jack-london-hardships-after-san-francisco-earthquake-1906-builds-snark |date=2013-12-07 }} Shapell Manuscript Foundation


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First edition (publ. Macmillan)

The Cruise of the Snark (1911)[1] is a non-fictional, illustrated book by Jack London chronicling his sailing adventure in 1907 across the south Pacific in his ketch the Snark. Accompanying London on this voyage was his wife Charmian London and a small crew. London taught himself celestial navigation and the basics of sailing and of boats during the course of this adventure and describes these details to the reader. He visits exotic locations including the Solomon Islands and Hawaii, and his first-person accounts and photographs provide insight into these remote places at the beginning of the 20th century.

About the Snark[edit]

The Snark, February 19, 1921

In 1906, Jack London began to build a 45-foot yacht on which he planned a round-the-world voyage, to last seven years.

The Snark was named after Lewis Carroll's 1876 poem The Hunting of the Snark. She had two masts and was 45 feet long at the waterline[2] and 55 feet on deck,[3] and London claimed to have spent thirty thousand dollars on her construction. She was primarily sail power; however, she also had an auxiliary 70-horsepower engine. She carried one lifeboat.

After many delays, Jack and Charmian London and a small crew sailed out of San Francisco Bay on April 23, 1907, bound for the South Pacific.[4]

Caption: "The Nature Man comes on Board the Snark", p. 180

One of London's crew members was young Martin Johnson from Kansas. Following the cruise of the Snark, Martin became an adventurer and world traveler, making some of the earliest motion pictures of unexplored or less-explored areas and peoples of the earth.[5]

The anchor, banister ropes, and oars from Snark were incorporated into the Los Feliz estate of conductor John A. Van Pelt built in the 1930s. The anchor from Snark was made into a chandelier and the oars were used as balcony beams.[6]

Locations visited by the Snark[edit]

Jack London at the building of the Snark in 1906.

The Londons ended their voyage at Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands and travelled to Sydney on the steamer SS Makambo. Jack spent five weeks in a hospital recovering from infections and illness. A skeleton crew brought the Snark from the Solomons to Australia where she was sold for a fraction of the build-costs. The Londons departed Australia on the SS Tymeric, bound for Ecuador April 8, 1909.

Media coverage[edit]

London's voyage garnered some media attention from the point when he first set out into the Pacific.[7] Concern was raised that the Snark might be lost when London failed to arrive in the Marquesas Islands on schedule.[8]

Related works[edit]

Jack London's The Lepers of Molokai first appeared as articles in the Woman's Home Companion (1908) and the Contemporary Review (1909).[9] Additional essays from the voyage also appeared in The Pacific Monthly and Harper's Weekly prior to publication of the Cruise of the Snark.[10]

Charmian Kittredge London subsequently wrote three books detailing their adventures aboard the Snark and their extended visits in Hawaii:

  • The Log of the Snark (1915)[11]
  • Our Hawaii (1917)[12]
  • Our Hawaii: Islands and Islanders (1917)[13]

These works provide daily details on the activities of the crew. A comparison with Jack London's book reveals how he highlighted episodes of most interest to his readers, such as surfing. Charmian London's books reveal much more description of the cultures they encountered, along with criticism of the effects of colonization.[14] Tucker notes how Charmian distinguishes her accounts from prior women travelog writers in being the sole woman with an all-male crew. This leads to her close reading of gender and hierarchies throughout the voyage.

References[edit]

  1. ^ London, Jack (1911). The Cruise of the Snark. Retrieved 2008-01-16. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ^ "The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London".
  3. ^ "Jack London: Sailor". BoatUS website.
  4. ^ Jack London "Jack London at the Huntington Library-Cruise of the Snark". Archived from the original on 2008-01-09. Retrieved 2012-06-25.
  5. ^ Johnson, Osa, I Married Adventure, first published 1940, reprint by Kodansha Globe, New York (1997).
  6. ^ https://www.curbed.com/2020/7/24/21325372/storybook-cottage-van-pelt-compound-for-sale-los-feliz Archived 2020-07-26 at the Wayback Machine Five-Cottage Storybook Compound in Los Feliz Returns to Market After 45 Years
  7. ^ "Jack London Starts on a Long Cruise" (PDF). The New York Times. April 24, 1907. Retrieved 2008-03-17.
  8. ^ "FEAR JACK LONDON IS LOST IN PACIFIC". The New York Times. January 10, 1908. Retrieved 2008-03-17.
  9. ^ "The Huntington Library: Tales from the South Pacific". Archived from the original on January 9, 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-25.
  10. ^ "The Huntington Library: The Cruise of the Snark". Archived from the original on January 9, 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-25.
  11. ^ London, Charmian (1915). The Log of the Snark. Macmillan. Retrieved 2008-01-17. the log of the snark.
  12. ^ London, Charmian (1917). Our Hawaii. Macmillan. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  13. ^ London, Charmian (1922). Our Hawaii: Islands and Islanders. Macmillan. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  14. ^ Tucker, Amy (2017). "Charmian's 'One True' Log of the Snark". Women's Studies. 46 (4): 362–387. doi:10.1080/00497878.2017.1302767. S2CID 152005795.

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