Sea Wolf

Sea Wolf Book Description Jack London's famous 1904 novel, The Sea Wolf, begins with the rescue of the wealthy literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden by the seal hunter "Wolf" Larsen in the open sea where he was dragged after a shipwreck, and continues with the transformative conflict of the survivor and the rescuer, who represent opposite ends. An unyielding materialist versus an ardent idealist; a captain who only knows how to survive at sea against a landman; A savage who can kill himself if necessary to feel alive against an intellectual who defends life; A Dane who believes that the real success and power is to survive in nature, against a successful representative of the abstract mental world, and a power above these two opposing characters: the sea! Sea Wolf is a Jack London novel that reveals the transformative effect of life in nature and man's struggle with this power, with nature again playing the leading role. (From the Promotional Bulletin)