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Through the Lens of JACK LONDON

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From: Humanities
Date: 20060301
Author:Kim-Brown, Caroline

Although known as a ... author of Call of the Wild also had a career as a photographer. His documentary work ... from the streets of San Francisco to the South Seas.

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Just before dawn on April 18,1906, Jack London awoke to the furious shaking of the earth beneath his bed. Startled, he and his wife Charmian quickly surveyed the damage to their Glen Ellen ranch, then with the sun rising, rode horseback to the top of nearby Sonoma mountain. From fifty miles away, they witnessed the amazing spectacle of San Francisco burning.

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