title: Wolf: Persecution-Escape-Survival-Triumph
author: Wolfgang Mueller
description: Wolfgang Mueller is a self-made man with a passion for literature, travel, and fine arts. He is a longtime resident of the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, where he raised his family and pursued a career in the wholesale food industry. This is his first book.
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  # The Sea Wolf
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Jack London
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously
  
  
  place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth's credit. He kept a
  
  
  summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais,
  
  
  and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter
  
  
  mouths and read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer to rest his brain. When
  
  
  summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and dusty existence
  
  
  in the city and to toil incessantly. Had it not been my custom to
  
  
  run up to see him every Saturday afternoon and to stop over till
  
  
  Monday morning, this particular January Monday morning would not
  
  
  have found me afloat on San Francisco Bay.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Not but that I was afloat in a safe craft, for the Martinez was a
  
  
  new ferry-steamer, making her fourth or fifth trip on the run
  
  
  between Sausalito and San Francisco. The danger lay 