The Call of the Wild: And, White FangThe illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations. Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally. Two of Jack London's best-loved masterpieces, in their entirety. Call of the Wild tells a compelling tale of adventure during the Yukon Gold Rush, and fully captures the unquenchable spirit of Buck, a kidnapped dog trying to survive in the harshest of environments. Also set in Alaska, the powerful White Fang follows the often savage life of the magnificent title character, a mix of wolf and dog. |
Contents
Into the Primitive | 3 |
The Law of Club and Fang | 13 |
The Dominant Primordial Beast | 22 |
Who Has Won to Mastership | 35 |
The Toil of Trace and Trail | 44 |
For the Love of a Man | 58 |
The Sounding of the Call | 71 |
White Fang | 87 |
The Outcast | 179 |
The Trail of the Gods | 184 |
The Covenant | 189 |
The Famine | 197 |
The Superior Gods | 205 |
The Enemy of His Kind | 207 |
The Mad God | 216 |
The Reign of Hate | 224 |
The Wild | 89 |
The Trail of the Meat | 91 |
The SheWolf | 99 |
The Hunger Cry | 109 |
Born of the Wild | 119 |
The Battle of the Fangs | 121 |
The Lair | 130 |
The Gray Cub | 138 |
The Wall of the World | 143 |
The Law of Meat | 153 |
The Gods of the Wild | 159 |
The Makers of Fire | 161 |
The Bondage | 171 |
The Clinging Death | 229 |
The Indomitable | 240 |
The LoveMaster | 246 |
The Tame | 259 |
The Long Trail | 261 |
The Southland | 266 |
The Gods Domain | 273 |
The Call of Kind | 283 |
The Sleeping Wolf | 289 |
Questions Questions Questions | 299 |
About the Author About the Illustrator | 303 |