Hambach Castle is located on the mountain Schlossberg in the eastern outskirts of the Palatine Forest in Germany.
It is considered a symbol of the German democracy movement. The Hambach Fest, a German national democratic festival and one of the main public demonstrations in support of German unity, freedom and democracy during the Vormärz era, was celebrated in the castle. The festival ran between May 27 and 30 in 1832.
John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Jack London was able to produce more than 50 books before his death in 1916 at age 40. London's best-known novels, The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf.
