Publisher's Synopsis
One of these ten, "Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan," written when London was only 17, was the first story he ever wrote for publication and it won first prize in a contest sponsored by The San Francisco Call. Charmian London writes in the introduction: "The boy Jack's unexpected success in that virgin venture naturally spurred him to further effort. It was, for one thing, the pleasantest way he had ever earned so much money, even if it lacked the element of physical prowess and danger that had marked those purple days with the oyster pirates, and, later, equally exciting passages with the Fish Patrol. He only waited to catch up on sleep lost while hammering out 'Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan, ' before applying himself to new fiction."
