TO BUILD A FIRE (PART TWO) by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 31 October 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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The dramatic ending of Jack London's epic short story 'To Build A Fire". A man alone in the Alaskan wilderness in the dead of winter struggles to survive in a frozen wilderness where one small mistake can cost you your life...
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to the exciting conclusion of Jack London's to build a fire. |
| 0:27.0 | Jack London's life was as rugged and adventurous as the tales he told. |
| 0:32.0 | Born in San Francisco on January 12, 1876, |
| 0:36.0 | he grew up in and around the docks of San Francisco and Oakland, California. |
| 0:41.0 | At 13, he left school to help support his family, but normal occupations |
| 0:46.8 | didn't appeal to him, and he joined a gang of men called The Oyster Pirates, who |
| 0:51.8 | illegally caught oysters at night and sold them the next morning. |
| 0:56.6 | You can find his short story, The Raid on the Oyster Pirates, in our archives here at |
| 1:01.3 | 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 1:05.0 | The easiest way to find this and all our episodes |
| 1:08.0 | is at www.1,001 Stories Podcast. dot com, stories spelled Sto R I E.S. |
| 1:18.0 | At only 15 years of age, Jack London was one of the most successful oyster pirates working in San Francisco Bay. |
| 1:25.0 | London maintained a strong love for books while he practiced his pirate trade. |
| 1:29.4 | In fact, his continuous reading was often compared to his hard drinking. |
| 1:33.7 | He did both with equal zest. London moved from place to place and from job to job. |
| 1:40.0 | He hunted seals in the Pacific, worked in a jute mill, and went prospecting for gold in Alaska. |
| 1:46.5 | London was an active social reformer and joined a march to Washington, D.C. in 1894 to voice demands for social and economic justice. But his own words sum up his attitude. |
| 1:59.4 | I became a tramp because of the life that was in me and of a wonder lost in my blood which |
| 2:05.1 | would not let me rest. London began writing down his adventures and in 1893 he |
| 2:11.2 | won a newspaper short story contest. |
| 2:14.2 | This success encouraged him to write more. |
| 2:17.0 | His early works were rejected by publishers, but a series of stories based on his experiences |
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