&ldquo;Jerry of the Islands&rdquo; is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.<br />Jerry of the Islands is a novel by American writer Jack London.&nbsp;The novel is set on the island of Malaita, a part of the Solomon Islands archipelago, which in 1893 became a British protectorate. The hero of the novel is Irish terrier Jerry, who was a brother of a dog named Michael, about whom London wrote another novel&mdash;Michael, Brother of Jerry.