The Call of the Wild and White Fang

Jack London's two most beloved tales of survival in Alaska were inspired by his experiences in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. Both novels grippingly dramatize the harshness of the natural world and what lies beneath the thin veneer of human civilization.

The canine hero of The Call of the Wild is Buck, a pampered pet in California who is stolen and forced to be a sled dog in the Alaskan wilderness. There he suffers from the brutal extremes of nature and equally brutal treatment by a series of masters, until he learns to heed his long-buried instincts and turn his back on civilization. White Fang charts the reverse journey, as a fierce wolf-dog hybrid born in the wild is eventually tamed. White Fang is adopted as a cub by a band of Indians, but when their dogs reject him he grows up violent, defensive, and dangerous. Traded to a man who stages fights, he is forced to face dogs, wolves, and lynxes in gruesome battles to the death, until he is rescued by a gold miner who sets out to earn his trust.

Author: Jack London
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/25/2014
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.19w x 0.85d
ISBN13: 9780804168854
ISBN10: 0804168857
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
- Fiction | Animals

About the Author
Jack London (born John Griffith Chaney, 1876-1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist, whose stories and novels set in Alaska and the South Pacific earned him worldwide fame.