The Star Rover - Jack London - Bookniverse

The human mind possesses a power that no prison walls can ever lock away. In The Star-Rover, Darrell Standing is serving a life sentence in a brutal prison. Subjected to the torture of a straitjacket, he discovers a secret: a way to completely detach his spirit from his body. Bound in darkness, his mind soars across time and space, reliving astonishing past lives as a prehistoric caveman, a Roman soldier, and a medieval knight.****************************To truly understand the fierce passion behind this story, one must look at the turbulent life of Jack London (1876–1916). Famously known for his rugged outdoor adventures like The Call of the Wild, London was also a passionate social activist who hated injustice. Published in 1915, The Star-Rover was deeply inspired by London’s real-life friendship with Ed Morrell, a former outlaw who survived five brutal years in solitary confinement at San Quentin. Morrell used the exact same "body-dropping" mental tricks to survive the torture of the straitjacket, and after his release, he campaigned heavily for prison reform.