📕 Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fi ction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune.“South Sea Tales” is a collection of amazing short stories like “The Whale Tooth,” “Mauki,” and “Yah! Yah! Yah!” Most of them are set aboard a ship or in island communities.