Mutiny of the Elsinore
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107
1914
English
- 01: I Don't Play Chopsticks
- 02: Mister Pike
- 03: The Greek Overboard
- 04: About Captain West
- 05: A Bughouse Crew
- 06: My Accomodations
- 07: We Never Discuss Sailors
- 08: Making Sail
- 09: Either a Calm or Northeast Gale
- 10: Mister Mellaire
- 11: Captain West is No Conversationalist
- 12: Captain West is a Samurai
- 13: Bedbugs!
- 14: Mulligan Jacobs
- 15: O'Sulllivan Used a Razor
- 16: Possum Has a Fit
- 17: The Gangsters in the Forecastle
- 18: The Greek Overboard Again
- 19: The Daughters of Herodias
- 20: Miss West is Never Idle
- 21: Charles Davis Murdered O'Sullivan
- 22: Captain West Reprimands Mister Mellaire
- 23: Two Sharks
- 24: Sidney Maltham
- 25: Rats
- 26: Slaves and Masters
- 27: "Oh Dear, oh dear"
- 28: Off the River Plate
- 29: A Sunset and Elsinore on Her Side
- 30: Number Three Hatch
- 31: She is Margaret
- 32: Old Stiff
- 33: Twenty-eight Point Six Four
- 34: Aloft in a Gale
- 35: A Cask and Three Devils
- 36: ...And no Westing
- 37: I have Found the Love of Woman
- 38: Did the Samurai Make a Mistake?
- 39: And God Help the Man That Don't Jump
- 40: We Make Westing
- 41: We Are Around the Horn
- 42: The Mutiny of the Elsinore
- 43: Twenty-seven of Them Against Eleven of Us
- 44: Where Do They Get Their Food?
- 45: Our First Truce
- 46: A Navigator Aft
- 47: Two Assaults and an Ambush
- 48: Rough-on-Rats
- 49: Sulfuric Acid and Sulfur Fumes
- 50: The Final Chapter
This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 and the glory days of “wooden ships and iron men” are long over. The Elsinore is a four-masted iron sailing vessel carrying a cargo of 5000 tons of coal. She has a “bughouse” crew of misfits and incompetents.
This book was published in 1915 and some actions of some of the characters seem odd to us today. There is romance, but it is strangely platonic. Two important characters disappear with no real explanation. The disparity between the officers on the one hand and the fo’c’sle on the other is striking (literally). Some people will be offended by the bigotry.
The “men against the sea” descriptions -and the weather descriptions- are among Jack London’s finest. In my opinion he is right up there with Joseph Conrad and Joshua Slocum in this effort. We also have a mutiny, complete with shootings and deliberate starvation. My personal favorite is chapter 38.
Note: The chapter titles were assigned by the reader. London gave only numbers. (Introduction by Tom Crawford)
This book was published in 1915 and some actions of some of the characters seem odd to us today. There is romance, but it is strangely platonic. Two important characters disappear with no real explanation. The disparity between the officers on the one hand and the fo’c’sle on the other is striking (literally). Some people will be offended by the bigotry.
The “men against the sea” descriptions -and the weather descriptions- are among Jack London’s finest. In my opinion he is right up there with Joseph Conrad and Joshua Slocum in this effort. We also have a mutiny, complete with shootings and deliberate starvation. My personal favorite is chapter 38.
Note: The chapter titles were assigned by the reader. London gave only numbers. (Introduction by Tom Crawford)
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