Two short thoughts on Jack: #2) Jack London and the Cutting Edge of History

Jack

You could probably guess that I’m a London fan.

As I said in the last post, I was reading a London short story, Shin-Bones. This is one of the South Seas stories, this about an Oxford-educated, thoroughly modern Hawaiianalii or prince, just returned from the Boer War. He narrates a story to his American or European friend about a thoroughly ancient adventure he had undertaken just years before, involving his ancestors sacred bones.

London’s writings encompass the turn of the last century...