Author: London, Jack, 1876-1916 (Keywords)

This work tells the tale of a dog's fight for survival in the harsh and frozen Yukon. Born into luxury but sold as a sledge dog, it tells of how he rises above all his enemies to become one of the most feared and admired dogs in the north.

Stolen from a life of luxury and taken to work in the frozen north as a sledge dog, Buck faces a harsh fight for survival. But as his primal instincts reawaken, how long can he resist the call of the wild?

The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adventure stories featuring the author's unique knowledge of the Yukon and the behaviour of humans and animals facing nature at its cruellest.

On its face, the novel is the story of Buck, a dog stolen from his comfortable home on a California ranch and shipped to the frozen Yukon to be a trained as a sled dog. But this exhilarating tale of a canine hero's fight for survival is in fact a vivid depiction of the great gold rush to the Klon...

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