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The Call of the Wild

By Jack London

Cover of The Call of the Wild

Cover: Howling Wolf in a Deep Mountain Valley (1912) by Yoshimura Hōryū (Japanese, 1874-1950) · Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0

The Call of the Wild is an adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively more primitive and wild in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs. By the end, he sheds the veneer of civilization, and relies on primal instinct and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild.

Summary source: Wikipedia: The Call of the Wild · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Table of contents

  1. 1: Into the Primitive
  2. 2: The Law of Club and Fang
  3. 3: The Dominant Primordial Beast
  4. 4: Who Has Won to Mastership
  5. 5: The Toil of Trace and Trail
  6. 6: For the Love of a Man
  7. 7: The Sounding of the Call