The Call of the Wild by Jack London is like one of
those Boys’ Own adventure type books. Rugged and manly. It’s as fast-paced and action-packed as a downhill dog-sled race.
The deeper chasm that’s runs beneath the snow is that animal and human must adapt in order to survive in severe and harsh environments. Live by your wits or die by your stupidity. Humans can be callous and cruel, and dogs can be loyal and loving. But both must mutually respect each other or plunge and perish beneath thin ice.
Set in the Yukon and Alaska gold rush days of the 1890s.
There are lots of shiny nuggets to be found in this great book in which you get to learn about yourself, man’s inhumanity to man and beast, how dogs think and behave, and, of course, the wild.
Brilliant!
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