The Call of the Wild: And, White Fang

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2004 - Fiction - 303 pages
The 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.

 

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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
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