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THE CALL OF THE WILD

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by Jack London (1903)

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Once gold was discovered in the cold and snowy north it was only a matter of time before many things would change. The pattern was familiar. First a trickle of hardened prospectors arrived and then soon followed a great flood of men who sought to find their fortune in a riverbed. The Klondike gold rush, which occurred between 1896 and 1899, is where we find Buck, a casualty of the new economy. Which saw demand for dogs explode as sled transport was the foremost means of travelling by land in the snow and ice of the Yukon. And so, Buck is kidnapped from his comfortable home and life and forcefully transported to Seattle, before being sold into servitude as a work dog on a sled. Taken further into the icy north, Buck takes it all in his stride, making friends earnestly whilst meeting enemies head on, learning the law of club and fang, and adapting to circumstances that sometimes changed in a heartbeat, and not always for the better. As an ancient calling from within drives Buck onward to his destiny, he will come to know the brotherhood of the canine pack and the meaning of the moonlight howl. Fiction. 114 pages.

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DETAILS:

Title: The call of the wild

Year: 1903

Author: Jack London

Pages: 114

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Book review by Keith Salter