London's account of building a boat and sailing the South Pacific with his wife. A vivid, mishap-filled travelogue.
Books mentioned in The Cruise of the Snark (3)
Typee by Herman Melville: “How often we had pored over the chart and centred always on that midmost bight and on the valley it opened—the Valley of Typee.”
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám: “I am willing to wager that Omer Khayyám could never have written the Rubáiyat in the valley of Typee”