American journalist Jack London took to the streets of Whitechapel to document struggles of London 's destitute . The conditions he experienced and photographed were the same as those endured by two poor . Now the seminal work , the earliest account of life on the city ’ s streets , has been republished as a box set .
American journalist Jack London took to the streets of Whitechapel to document struggles of London 's destitute . The conditions he experienced and photographed were the same as those endured by an estimated 500,000 poor . Now the seminal work , the earliest account of life on the city ’ s streets , has been republished as a box set .