The Call of the Wild and Other Stories (The Modern Readers' Series)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2337453
Reissue. No jacket. Spine and boards lightly toned and lightly foxed.
xxxv, 268, [2] pp. New introduction by Frank Luther Mott. CONTENTS: Editor's Introduction; The Call of the Wild; To Build a Fire; The Heathen; The Strength of the Strong. The domesticated life of a powerful St. Bernard-Shepherd mix named Buck is quickly turned on end when he is stolen away from his master and put to work as a sled dog in Alaska. His once life of luxury turns into a life of survival and adaptation as he learns the ways of the wilderness. Set in the Klondike region of Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, The Call of the Wild showcases the transformation of a canine as he learns to adapt to what life has given him, fair or not.
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