He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.
“The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.”
“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
A domesticated dog is forced into the harsh Klondike, where survival gradually draws him towards a more instinctive life.
A wide-ranging anthology of Jack London’s fiction, journalism and autobiographical writing centred on adventure, travel, conflict and survival.