Jack London And Alaska
Jack London was a famous America Author, born 12 of January 1876, California, USA. He is most famous for his novels and short text, most of which are inspired by his real-life experiences. One of the things which he took a lot of inspiration from was his time in Alaska.
Jack London traveled to Alaska when he was just 21 years old. At the time he was a poor and had been most of his life. You see Jack London was born in a poor family and had to live with being poor most of his early life. At that time, he would take nearly any job he could, legal or illegal, if he could make some money from it. Then when he heard about the gold rush in Alaska, he traveled up there hoping to make a fortune like 100,000 others at the time.
Jack London did make a fortune from Alaska, but maybe not the way he had expected. In Alaska, London started publishing stories to magazines giving him some publicity, but this was not what made him famous, that was the story “The Call of The Wild”, 1903, which became a best seller. This book was inspired by London’s time in Alaska and is now one of his most famous books. It was this story which gave him a reputation as a writer.
The Call of the wild isn’t the only story inspired by London’s time in Alaska. The story “White Fangs”, which is another one of his most famous works, was inspired by his time in Alaska. Most of the stories where Jack London wrote about Alaska, he wrote about how brutal and unforgiving Alaska is, one example of such a story is “To build a fire”, where a man literally dies of hypothermia (reduced body temperature). This short story is by many considered to be his best work. Though he didn’t only make his fortune from his time in Alaska, during the time he developed Scurvy. Scurvy is a sickness which destroys the gums in the mouth and makes muscles in the body painful, especially legs and arms, and is caused by a lack of C-vitamin.
If Jack London didn’t travel to Alaska, he would probably never be as famous as he is. I mean, most of Jack London most famous stories are based on Alaska and the gold rush, and it was a story based on Alaska that first made him famous. So, there is no doubt, in my mind, that Jack London was inspired by Alaska and that he would never have been the same without it.
