How to survive when the body is bound by the chains of torture and fear? In Jack London's novel "Wanderer on the Stars," Darrell Standing, sentenced to life imprisonment in solitary confinement and torture with a straitjacket, escapes from unbearable suffering into his past lives. A Viking who survived bloody battles and slavery, a Korean courtier-intriguer, a sailor on a desert island - endless reincarnations, an eternal cycle of existence that Standing comprehends along with the truth as old as the mountains. To be free means to realize the illusory nature of time, the body and death itself, dissolving in the infinity of being. The novel is published in English without adaptation and abbreviations.