The Mutiny of the Elsinore

Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Nautical & Marine Fiction, Romance

Number of Chapters: 50

Length: 12 hours and 29 minutes

Language: English

This is the story of a voyage of a sailing ship from Baltimore to Seattle, east-to-west around Cape Horn in the winter. It is set in 1913 and the glory days of “wooden ships and iron men” are long over. The Elsinore is a four-masted iron sailing vessel carrying a cargo of 5000 tons of coal. She has a “bughouse” crew of misfits and incompetents.

This book was published in 1915 and some actions of some of the characters seem odd to us today. There is romance, but it is strangely platonic. Two important characters disappear with no real explanation. The disparity between the officers on the one hand and the fo’c’sle on the other is striking (literally). Some people will be offended by the bigotry.

The “men against the sea” descriptions -and the weather descriptions- are among Jack London’s finest. In my opinion he is right up there with Joseph Conrad and Joshua Slocum in this effort. We also have a mutiny, complete with shootings and deliberate starvation. My personal favorite is chapter 38.

Note: The chapter titles were assigned by the reader. London gave only numbers. (Introduction by Tom Crawford)

01: I Don't Play Chopsticks (Tom Crawford)

02: Mister Pike (Tom Crawford)

03: The Greek Overboard (Tom Crawford)

04: About Captain West (Tom Crawford)

05: A Bughouse Crew (Tom Crawford)

06: My Accomodations (Tom Crawford)

07: We Never Discuss Sailors (Tom Crawford)

08: Making Sail (Tom Crawford)

09: Either a Calm or Northeast Gale (Tom Crawford)

10: Mister Mellaire (Tom Crawford)

11: Captain West is No Conversationalist (Tom Crawford)

12: Captain West is a Samurai (Tom Crawford)

13: Bedbugs! (Tom Crawford)

14: Mulligan Jacobs (Tom Crawford)

15: O'Sulllivan Used a Razor (Tom Crawford)

16: Possum Has a Fit (Tom Crawford)

17: The Gangsters in the Forecastle (Tom Crawford)

18: The Greek Overboard Again (Tom Crawford)

19: The Daughters of Herodias (Tom Crawford)

20: Miss West is Never Idle (Tom Crawford)

21: Charles Davis Murdered O'Sullivan (Tom Crawford)

22: Captain West Reprimands Mister Mellaire (Tom Crawford)

23: Two Sharks (Tom Crawford)

24: Sidney Maltham (Tom Crawford)

25: Rats (Tom Crawford)

26: Slaves and Masters (Tom Crawford)

27: "Oh Dear, oh dear" (Tom Crawford)

28: Off the River Plate (Tom Crawford)

29: A Sunset and Elsinore on Her Side (Tom Crawford)

30: Number Three Hatch (Tom Crawford)

31: She is Margaret (Tom Crawford)

32: Old Stiff (Tom Crawford)

33: Twenty-eight Point Six Four (Tom Crawford)

34: Aloft in a Gale (Tom Crawford)

35: A Cask and Three Devils (Tom Crawford)

36: ...And no Westing (Tom Crawford)

37: I have Found the Love of Woman (Tom Crawford)

38: Did the Samurai Make a Mistake? (Tom Crawford)

39: And God Help the Man That Don't Jump (Tom Crawford)

40: We Make Westing (Tom Crawford)

41: We Are Around the Horn (Tom Crawford)

42: The Mutiny of the Elsinore (Tom Crawford)

43: Twenty-seven of Them Against Eleven of Us (Tom Crawford)

44: Where Do They Get Their Food? (Tom Crawford)

45: Our First Truce (Tom Crawford)

46: A Navigator Aft (Tom Crawford)

47: Two Assaults and an Ambush (Tom Crawford)

48: Rough-on-Rats (Tom Crawford)

49: Sulfuric Acid and Sulfur Fumes (Tom Crawford)

50: The Final Chapter (Tom Crawford)

The audiobook The Mutiny of the Elsinore falls under the genres of Action & Adventure Fiction, Nautical & Marine Fiction, Romance. It is written by Jack London.

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