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Dutch Courage and Other Stories, by Jack
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Title: Dutch Courage and Other Stories
Author: Jack London
Release Date: December 24, 2004 [eBook #14449]
Language: English
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DUTCH COURAGE AND OTHER STORIES
by
JACK LONDON
New York
1924
[Illustration: JACK LONDON, SAILOR]
PREFACE
"I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall write such a line!"
Thus Jack London, well along in his career. And thus almost any collection of his adventure stories is acceptable to young readers as well as to their elders. So, in sorting over the few manuscripts still unpublished in book form, while most of them were written primarily for boys and girls, I do not hesitate to include as appropriate a tale such as "Whose Business Is to Live."
Number two of the present group, "Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan," is the first story ever written by Jack London for publication. At the age of seventeen he had returned from his deep-water voyage in the sealing schooner Sophie Sutherland, and was working thirte