Jack London’s Tales of Adventure is a posthumous anthology edited by Irving Milo Shepard and first published in 1956. It brings together more than 50 selections from across London’s career, including short stories, autobiographical pieces, travel writing, journalism and extracts from novels. The collection draws heavily on subjects associated with London’s own experiences, including seafaring, tramping, prospecting and life in the Klondike.

The volume also includes reportage on events such as the San Francisco earthquake and the Russo-Japanese War, alongside fictional selections from works including The Sea-Wolf, The Iron Heel and Martin Eden. Taken together, the anthology presents adventure in several forms: encounters with wilderness, physical danger, social conflict and unfamiliar places. It also shows the range of London’s writing beyond his best-known animal stories, combining imaginative fiction with accounts shaped by observation and personal experience.