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100 1 _aLondon, Jack,
_d1876-1916
245 1 0 _aMeidän Herramme pettäjä
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
500 _aTranslations of four stories: The Francis Spaight; Make westing; That dead men rise up never; The sea-farmer.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-05-15
505 0 _aValtameren kauhuja -- Meidän Herramme pettäjä -- Kuolleet eivät milloinkaan palaja -- Valtameren kyntäjä.
508 _aTapio Riikonen
520 _a"Meidän Herramme pettäjä : Kertomuksia valtameren kyntäjistä" by Jack London is a collection of sea stories written in the early 20th century. The tales center on the brutal, elemental life at sea—shipwrecks, Cape Horn gales, superstition, and grim moral tests—following sailors, captains, and ship’s boys in moments where courage and cruelty collide. Expect terse, hard-edged storytelling, stark irony, and vivid maritime detail rather than a single continuing protagonist. The opening of the collection presents four stark sea pieces. First comes a “true story” of the Francis Spaight, where a capsized crew drifts starving until they force a rigged lottery and murder a defiant cabin boy—only to be sighted and rescued moments later. Next, aboard the Mary Rogers at Cape Horn, the hulking Captain Dan Cullen, obsessed with “keeping a westing,” refuses to heave to for a man overboard and later contrives a passenger’s death, coolly covering both in the log. Then a young hand on the Sophie Sutherland battles fo’c’sle superstition: after taking a dead man’s bunk he “sees” a ghost on night watch that proves to be a mast-shadow cast by the veiled moon. The final piece begins with a weary captain approaching Dublin Bay, pilot aboard and rain coming in, sketching the commercial grind before the excerpt cuts off. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Oy Kansanvalta, 1924
653 _aAmerican fiction -- Translations into Finnish
653 _aShort stories, American -- Translations into Finnish
653 _aSea stories, American -- Translations into Finnish
700 1 _aKopra, Tauno
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76099
999 _c116824
_d116824