Jack London 
The Sea-Wolf 

The Sea-Wolf is Jack London’s 1904 novel about a man, Humphrey Van Weyden, whose ship is lost in San Francisco Bay. He’s picked up by Wolf Larsen, the brutal captain of the seal-hunting vessel The Ghost, and subjected to horrible treatment by him and his crew. It is a tale of survival against impossible odds and how one simple man struggles to become more than he realizes.