Smoke Bellew

"e;Smoke Bellew"e; is a 1912 novel by Jack London. The story revolves around Christopher Bellew, a successful journalist in San Francisco who one day decides to swapping his monotonous and meaningless life for an entirely different one in nature. From clean-shaven pen-pusher to bearded mountain man, he adopts the name "e;Smoke"e; and learns to live in the wilds of the frontier. John Griffith London (1876 - 1916), commonly known as Jack London, was an American journalist, social activist, and novelist. He was an early pioneer of commercial magazine fiction, becoming one of the first globally-famous celebrity writers who were able to earn a large amount of money from their writing. Other notable works by this author include: "e;The Cruise of the Dazzler"e; (1902), "e;The Kempton-Wace Letters"e; (1903), and "e;The Call of the Wild"e; (1903). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.