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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Great Read on the Life of a HoboBy L. N. HoweLeave it to .com to inform me of books I didn't know existed. Until I looked up "free books," I didn't know about Jack London's "The Road." it's about his days riding the rails in the late 1800s, when he was in his late teens. It's fascinating and tells all about what it was like to be a hobo in those days before there were automobiles, but some of the the great transcontinental railroads had been constructed across the US and Canada.A hobo, strictly speaking, was a tramp who rode the rails. It helped, as London explains, to be in the prime of health, and at this time of his life, London was. He describes how the train men were constantly forcing the hobos off the trains and the tricks the hobos used to sneak back on. He tells about towns where the hobos stopped and the secret signs they left for one another (where someone would give them a free meal or lodging, for instance). It's hard to believe how MANY hobos there were in those days. A long transcontinental train might start with as many as a hundred hobos, but their numbers were soon whittled down by the train men. The hobos rode in boxcars (if they could get in), under the cars (dangerous if you got sleepy), and on top of the cars (also dangerous if you got sleepy or went through a tunnel). One time London rode in the coal car, behind the locomotive. A very interesting chapter in the book describes how London was (unfairly really) arrested for loitering somewhere in the Niagara Falls area and was put in jail for a month. Just as he had become "street smart" about riding the rails, so he became street smart about getting along in jail.All this I got for free, thank you .com, but I enjoyed the book so much I bought a paperback copy for one of my boys, and I will probably buy another one or two for others in time. It's a great read by a great author.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The Hobo PhilosopherBy Richard E. NobleThe RoadBy Jack LondonBook ReviewBy Richard Edward NobleAt nineteen years of age, Jack London decided that he wanted to live the life of a tramp or bum. He wanted to be a bum, not a hobo. As I learned from Billy Early, the self proclaimed ldquo;King of the Hobosrdquo; who had his home base in my hometown of Lawrence, MA, the difference between a bum and a hobo is that a hobo is willing to work for his grub while a bum chooses to beg.It was the late eighteen hundreds or early teens when Jack was nineteen. He headed out to see America in the traditional bum fashion ndash; he hopped railroad boxcars and rode the rods.Jack gives the straight story as he saw it, no frills, no lace, and no cute jokes.Reading ldquo;the Roadrdquo; by Jack London I think would inspire none but the most adventuresome of spirits.Since my wife and I took off one day in our van camper to get the taste of America and then wrote a book about our we labeled ndash; ldquo;Hobo-ing America,rdquo; we both have been interested in the lives and experiences of other less endowed travel bugs.I enjoyed reading Jackrsquo;s book, ldquo;The Road,rdquo; and I have a list on my kindle of other book by Jack London I intend to read.Donrsquo;t be misled though, Jack is not supplying the reader with the Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer humorist's point of view. He is all business.My favorite road book is called ldquo;Pages from a Workerrsquo;s Life,rdquo; and it was written by William Z. Foster. Because Mr. Foster went on in his life to found the first Communist Party in America, he does not get a lot of readers nor is he held in very high regard.For pure fun reading, I like Mark Twainrsquo;s ldquo;Roughing It.rdquo;Irsquo;ve since read three more books by Jack London and he is, without any doubt, an original and very creative writer.If you are even remotely interested in Hobo-ing about America and learning the history of ldquo;tramp- dom,rdquo; Jack Londonrsquo;s ldquo;The Roadrdquo; should be right up your alley.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Perfect!By Chuck PetersonPerfect!

In The Road, Jack London relates his years as a hobo in America and Canada in the years 1894-1895. The book comes more than 10 years after the journey and there is a good chance that it is constructed for readers and written to be appealing.

About the AuthorJohn Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 ndash; November 22, 1916) 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. He is best remembered as the author of and , both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel , his non-fiction exposeacute; , and The War of the Classes.

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