THE CALL OF THE WILD
At home in California, Buck has an easy, comfortable
life. He is the biggest, strongest, most important dog in
the place. He goes walking and swimming with the
children, and sits by his owner’s fire in the winter.
But this is 1897 and dogs like Buck are needed in the
Yukon, where men have found gold. 80 Buck is stolen
from his home and taken north. There he learns how to
pull a sledge, travelling day after day over the frozen
snow. He learns how to steal food, how to break the ice
in water-holes, how to fight the other dogs when they
attack him. And he learns fast.
Soon Buck is one of the most famous sledge-dogs in the
north. But the north is a wild place, where the wolf
howls to the moon and runs free in the forest. And the
call of the wild comes to Buck in his dreams, louder and
louder . . .