Smoke Bellew

Smoke Bellew (1912) by Jack London, with the original illustrations by P. J Monahan. SMOKE BELLEW was the first book published after his string of titles based upon the Pacific voyage of the "Snark"; he wrote this thereafter, while he and Charmian were settled into their "Beauty Ranch." Jack was still recovering from some of the diseases he had incurred on the trip, and was increasingly relying upon alcohol to assist him. John Griffith "Jack" London, was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.