The Star Rover is a novel by Jack London published in 1915. It is science fiction and involves both mysticism and reincarnation.
A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket" a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state in which he walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives.