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Article: GLEN ELLEN; HAMLET OFFERS HAUNTING GLIMPSE INTO PAST OF AUTHOR JACK LONDON : ON LOCATION.(TRAVEL)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- September 28, 1997
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Byline: Susanne Hopkins Daily News Travel Editor
It's just six minutes long, but the silent newsreel is mesmerizing. A smiling Jack London cavorts about his ranch in the hills above Sonoma. He drives a manure spreader, slops the pigs, currycombs his horse and cuddles a squealing piglet.
On Nov. 22, 1916, six days after the newsreel was shot, the fabled author and adventurer died at age 40, some say of uremic poisoning, while others claim a morphine overdose by his own hand.
But the legend of the man who penned such classics as ``The Sea Wolf,'' ``The Call of the Wild,'' ``South Sea Tales'' and ``White Fang'' lives on, perpetuated by Jack London ...