The Call of the Wild and White Fang

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Random House, Jun 6, 2013 - Juvenile Fiction - 512 pages

Mush on!

Buck does not read the newspapers. If he had, he’d have known that for good strong dogs like himself trouble is brewing. Man has found gold and because of that Buck is kidnapped and dragged away from his sunny home to become a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing North. With strength, imagination and cunning on his side Buck must fight for survival. But will he ever trust Man again?

This book also includes White Fang a story about a wild young cub, part dog and part wolf.

Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can find out if you’re a wild wolf or a faithful dog and learn more about the Arctic gold rush!

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Contents

Into the Primitive
3
The Law of Club and Fang
20
The Dominant Primordial Beast
35
Who Has Won to Mastership
58
The Toil of Trace and Trail
73
For the Love of a Man
97
The Sounding of the Call
119
White Fang
147
The Bondage
277
The Outcast
291
The Trail of the Gods
299
The Covenant
308
The Famine
322
The Enemy of His Kind
336
The Mad God
352
The Reign of Hate
366

The Trail of the Meat
149
The SheWolf
161
The Hunger Cry
177
The Battle of the Fangs
194
The Lair
210
The Gray Cub
223
The Wall of the World
232
The Law of Meat
250
The Makers of Fire
259
The Clinging Death
375
The Indomitable
393
The LoveMaster
402
The Long Trail
424
The Southland
433
The Gods Domain
444
The Call of Kind
461
The Sleeping Wolf
472
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About the author (2013)

Jack London was born in 1876 in San Francisco, California. His parents weren’t married and he grew up with a foster mother. Growing up in a working class family, London had a tough childhood. Desperate to escape a life of hard labour and make his way by writing, London managed to scrape together enough money to go to the University of California. However, financial difficulties forced him to leave before he graduated. On July 12, 1897, aged 21, London and his sister's husband sailed to join the Klondike Gold Rush. This time in the Northlands damaged his health and like so many other men who were malnourished in the goldfields, London developed scurvy. His gums became swollen and he lost his four front teeth. Inspired by his experiences during the gold rush, London went on to write stories which would make him a worldwide celebrity and a rich man. His most popular story, The Call of the Wild, was published in 1903 and was an instant bestseller. It was followed by White Fang in 1906. London was one of the first authors to make a fortune through his writing.

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