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Title:
The Call of the Wild
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Narrative:
Third Person
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Pages:
139
Number of Chapters:
7
Synopsis:
A dog named Buck who is kidnapped and sold both into slavery with the purpose of being sold into the sled dog trade.
Buck left a life of ease in California to a life of privation and hardship in the brutal and unforgiving Alaskan winter. He learned to obey his masters quickly after the brutal behaviorism taught by Perrault, the man with the club. He learned that brutality was necessary for survival.
Buck survived many scrapes with death. He best the odds when he was rescued from the ownership of some incompetent fortune seekers by John Thornton who treated Buck with civility and kindness. Buck feels an impulse to seek the companionship with wild dogs and strayed from the camp for long stretches of time. Buck returned to find that John and his companions were killed in an Indian attack. Buck is able to exact some revenge and he gained the reputation as the ”Ghost Dog.”
Author:
Jack London
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Publisher:
Aladdin
Barcode:
9780689856747
Country:
United States
Number of Copies:
1
Quantity:
1
Date Added:
2023-12-06 11:37:16