{"product_id":"the-house-of-pride-and-other-tales-of-hawaii-by-jack-london-fiction-action-adventure-9781598181548","title":"The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii by Jack London, Fiction, Action \u0026 Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Never are there such departures as from the dock at Honolulu. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe great transport lay with steam up, ready to pull out. A thousand persons were on her decks; five thousand stood on the wharf. Up and down the long gangway passed native princes and princesses, sugar kings and the high officials of the Territory. Beyond, in long lines, kept in order by the native police, were the carriages and motor-cars of the Honolulu aristocracy. On the wharf the Royal Hawaiian Band played \"Aloha Oe,\" and when it finished, a stringed orchestra of native musicians on board the transport took up the same sobbing strains, the native woman singer's voice rising birdlike above the instruments and the hubbub of departure.\" -- From \"Aloha Oe.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLondon, Jack:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \"John Griffith Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories To Build a Fire, An Odyssey of the North and Love of Life. He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as The Pearls of Parlay and The Heathen, and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.\"","brand":"Aegypan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50921658351890,"sku":"9781598181548","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4e680785-4431-4a8f-b546-21784316c9cc.jpg?v=1738922731","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-house-of-pride-and-other-tales-of-hawaii-by-jack-london-fiction-action-adventure-9781598181548","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}