This is an exciting and tense adventure novel. It is the brightest among the great works by Jack London that came into the golden fund of the world fiction and was numerously screened. Times change and decades pass, but even nowadays, after more than one hundred years from the novel's publishing, the reader is not only absorbed but also bewitched by a story about a deathful confrontation of survived by a miracle in a shipwreck young writer Humphrey and his unwitting rescuer and mortal enemy, fearless and cruel captain of whaleship, Wolf Larsen, half pirate who is obsessed with a superhuman complex?
