Description: More than two hundred photographs printed from the original negatives in the California State Parks collection and from the original photographs in albums at the Huntington Library, reproduced here as duotones from silver gelatin prints. The general and chapter introductions place London's photographs in the context of his writings and his times.
Brief description: PHILIP ADAM has worked with museums and cultural institutions in California for thirty years to preserve historical photographic collections. His original photographs are in the permanent collections of the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley; University of California at Davis, Special Collections; the California State Library in Sacramento; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Review Quotes:
Jack London is best known as a writer of red-blooded adventure tales. But he was also a journalist, traveler, social activist - and prolific photographer . . . The breadth of this book shows how far London would go for a good story.
--Los Angeles Times