First published in 1903, 'The Call of the Wild' is a concise adventure novel by Jack London, an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. Buck, a strong St Bernard dog is stolen from his relaxing Californian life in Santa Clara Valley and sold to French Canadians, who think Buck is one in a thousand. They bring him to Alaska and train him as a sled dog where he fast discovers how to outlast the cold winter nights and the pack society by observing his teammates. It is Jack London's most popular novel that follows Buck’s journey through the fierce landscapes as a sled dog, passing from one master to another, and getting trained to deeper themes such as survival of the fittest, civilization versus nature, and fate versus free will.
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