"American novelist Herman Melville jumped ship and spent a month as the captive of a cannibal tribe. This became the source of his novel Typee.
Jack London went to the Klondike with the first rush of gold-seekers, returning home a year later as poor as when he had left.
John Dillinger robbed a grocery store, was caught and spent 9 years in prison. He later became "public enemy number one," before being gunned down by the FBI."



