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...tame on the trail in The Call of the Wild and joined a wolf pack. White Fang told of a wolf that left Alaska to become civilized in California. The Sea Wolf told of a more or less human character called Larsen, the savage master of a Pacific sealer who could not decide whether he belonged in or out of human society...
...story in this book, Bonin Islands, about a fight between Pacific sealers and island natives, evokes a youthful, innocent hunger for strange places and, at the same time, a kind of mindless, hallucinatory quality. Yet it tells of real events that happened when young London, at 16, shipped on a sealer to the islands. After three years of kicking about the Pacific, he returned to the U.S. and, thirsting for knowledge, enrolled as a freshman at Oakland High School. The student literary journal, Aegis, published his Bonin Islands story, and its stay-at-home readers must have been awed...
...service of Czar Alexander I. Bellingshausen never set foot on the antarctic continent, but he did catch sight of some offshore islands. Soon afterwards, to his disappointment, he met a mariner who had been there before him: a Yankee named Nathaniel Palmer, skipper of a U.S.-flag sealer. Bellingshausen (clearly the kind of sportsman who would displease the Soviet Union today), magnanimously named the territory he had sighted after Palmer...
...spiritual counsel to a would-be business executive, Hackney says, "I took his hand and led him toward the analyst in the vestry room. 'The raccoon,' I continued, 'always washes his food before eating. Why not 'raccoon' your mind?... Since then that young man has risen from envelope-sealer for Eastern Steel to the ownership of one of the largest clip joints in Las Vegas! And why? Because he learned to 'raccoon' his mind...
...watched, a Rogers-designed dispenser measured a shot of syrup into a 12-02. can, a carbonator fizzed it full of sparkling water, a sealer crimped on a flat top, and the first can of root beer rolled off the line of Can-a-Pop's third and largest plant (one of the largest in the country). By last week Rogers had his clashing $1,250,000 cannery up to peak production of 30,000 cases daily...