The Call of the Wild

Jack London’s iconic Yukon adventure follows Buck from domestic comfort into brutal struggle, instinct, and wilderness.

At a glance The Call of the Wild is one of the defining adventure novels of the early twentieth… Jack London places Buck in the brutal conditions of the Klondike Gold Rush, where labor… What gives the novel its staying power is the pressure of transformation. Buck begins as a domesticated animal stolen from comfort, but each trial pushes him…

What makes this book endure

About this book A vivid adventure novel in which Buck, a stolen dog thrust into the Klondike, is transformed by violence, endurance, leadership, and the lure of the wild.