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Adventure, Paperback / softback Book

Adventure Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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This novel, a devastating portrayal of colonialism and slavery set in the Solomon Islands, has generated considerable controversy since its publication over the question of whether London shared the racist beliefs of his characters or, on the contrary, was merely presenting them accurately.He was a very sick white man.

He rode pick-a-back on a woolly-headed, black-skinned savage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and stretched until one had torn out, while the other carried a circular block of carved wood three inches in diameter.

The torn ear had been pierced again, but this time not so ambitiously, for the hole accommodated no more than a short clay pipe.

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