Sunday, October 13, 2013

Jack London's opinion of Guadalcanal

"[He] doubted his heart was cold enough to banish his worst enemies to a place so dire, where 'the air is saturated with a poison that bites into every pore . . . and that many strong men who escape dying there return as wrecks to their own countries.'"

(from Neptune's Inferno, by James D. Hornfischer)

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