On the Makaloa Mat (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

London, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331699916 ISBN 13: 9781331699910

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from On the Makaloa Mat Unlike the women of most warm races, those of Hawaii age well and nobly. With no pretense of make-up or cunning concealment of time's in roads, the woman who sat under the hau tree might have been permitted as much as fifty years by a judge competent anywhere over the world save in Hawaii. Yet her children and her grandchildren, and Roscoe Scandwell, who had been her husband for forty years, know that she was sixty-four and would be sixty-five come the next twenty-second day of June. But she did not look it, despite the fact that she thrust reading glasses on her nose as she read her magazine and took them off when her gaze de sired to wander in the direction of the half-dozen children playing on the lawn. It was a noble situation - noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably houselike was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away landward, its plush of green at an appraisement of two hundred dollars a front foot, to a bungalow equally dignified, noble, and costly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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About the Author:

Jack London (1876-1916) was an American writer who produced two hundred short stories, more than four hundred nonfiction pieces, twenty novels, and three full-length plays in less than two decades. His best-known works include The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, and White Fang.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1331699916
• ISBN 13: 9781331699910
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240