Buck is a pampered California dog until he is stolen, shipped north and sold into the brutal work of hauling sleds across the Klondike goldfields. Beaten, starved and tested, he sheds his softness layer by layer, until something older than domestication wakes in him.
Jack London’s masterpiece runs barely a hundred and fifty pages and moves like a sled at full speed. It is an adventure story on the surface and a meditation on survival and instinct underneath, loved equally by teenagers and their grandfathers.
