The Sea-Wolf | Fine Print Edition

The Sea-Wolf | Fine Print Edition

From Captain Nemo’s Library

The sea has little patience for weakness, and even less for those who mistake civilization for safety.

When literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden survives a shipwreck in the Pacific, his rescue aboard the sealing schooner Ghost proves to be the beginning of an altogether more terrifying ordeal.

Commanded by the formidable Captain Wolf Larsen, the Ghost is a vessel ruled by brutality, intellect, and the uncompromising laws of survival. Larsen is a man of extraordinary physical strength and philosophical intelligence, yet his contempt for human weakness makes him as dangerous as the ocean itself.

Forced into a world utterly removed from his comfortable existence, Van Weyden must confront questions of morality, power, independence, and the true nature of humanity.

First published in 1904, Jack London’s The Sea-Wolf is a gripping maritime adventure and a profound exploration of the struggle between intellect and instinct, civilization and savagery.

A Note from Captain Nemo’s Library

Captain Nemo has always maintained that the sea offers a freedom the world above cannot comprehend.

Wolf Larsen might agree, although the two captains would almost certainly disagree on what a man ought to do with that freedom.

Both possess formidable intellects, fierce independence, and a profound distrust of conventional society. Yet where Larsen sees power as justification, Nemo’s complicated moral convictions suggest a rather different understanding of authority.

Ilex suspects that an encounter between the two men would be fascinating.

She also suspects that neither would survive the conversation with his pride entirely intact.

A compelling addition to Captain Nemo’s Library, The Sea-Wolf belongs among the great works of maritime literature, where the greatest dangers are not always found beneath the waves.

Book Details

• Author: Jack London
• Edition: Fine Print Edition
• Original Publication: 1904
• Pages: 188
• Dimensions: 6 × 9 × 0.4 inches
• Edition Publication Date: October 3, 2014
• Genre: Classic Literature, Maritime Adventure, Psychological Fiction

From the Library: Captain Nemo has expressed little admiration for Wolf Larsen. Ilex considers this one of the more revealing endorsements of the book.