This book includes three authorial collections by Jack London – The Fish Patrol Stories, which have an autobiographical nature, South Sea Tales, dedicated to the relatively untouched by Western civilization Hawaiian Islands in the early 20th century, and The Son of the Sun, focused on the adventures of one of the author's favorite characters – the noble adventurer David Grief. Poachers and pirates, crafty Chinese and Greeks with complex and ambiguous relationships with the law, cunning smugglers and cynical swindlers of all kinds, pearl divers and naive yet sly native Kanaks, dark-skinned beauties of the islanders and steel-white men with revolvers at their belts, easily using them at a moment's notice, but above all – adventures, adventures, and more adventures, deadly dangerous and humorously funny, yet invariably captivating.
