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In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-mile odyssey. This book features several stories that London told about his hoboing days. It presents a collection of nine essays, with accompanying illustrations.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Selected Bibliography
A Note on the Text
List of Illustrations

Chapter 1: Confession
Chapter 2: Holding Her Down
Chapter 3: Pictures
Chapter 4: "Pinched"
Chapter 5: The Pen
Chapter 6: Hoboes That Pass in the Night
Chapter 7: Road-Kids and Gay-Cats
Chapter 8: Two Thousand Stiffs
Chapter 9: Bulls

Explanatory Notes
About the Editor

The Road

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      Publisher Rutgers University Press
      Published 3 May 2006
      ISBN-13 9780813538068
      978-0813538068
      ISBN-10 0813538068
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      Autobiography: writers Literature: history and criticism Books by Jack London

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-mile odyssey. This book features several stories that London told about his hoboing days. It presents a collection of nine essays, with accompanying illustrations.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      Selected Bibliography
      A Note on the Text
      List of Illustrations

      Chapter 1: Confession
      Chapter 2: Holding Her Down
      Chapter 3: Pictures
      Chapter 4: "Pinched"
      Chapter 5: The Pen
      Chapter 6: Hoboes That Pass in the Night
      Chapter 7: Road-Kids and Gay-Cats
      Chapter 8: Two Thousand Stiffs
      Chapter 9: Bulls

      Explanatory Notes
      About the Editor

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