Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Garrick Hagon ISBN: 9-6263406-4-9 Publisher: Naxos Audio Books Pub. Date: September, 1995 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $15.98 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.81 (286 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Principles of Leadership
Comment: Buck, a dog, lived in California in the Santa Clara Valley. He was top dog at Judge Miller's place. He weighed one hundred forty pounds.
In 1897 the Klondike strike drove all manner of men to the Northland. A gardener sold Buck. He was put in a crate. For two days he did not eat or drink. He was broken brutally with a club.
Buck was purchased by Perrault, a French-Canadian. He traveled by ship to Alaska. Mixed breed dogs and huskies, the sled dogs, are described interestingly by London. Buck toiled in the traces for an unending number of days. He found newborn cunning and ceased being a fussy eater.
Buck's team encountered a starving group of dogs, (a walking and menacing example of the danger in the North to which animals and men were subject), who attacked the food with manic intensity. Perrault and his partner Francois sought to save their dogs from the famished beasts. The members of the team were wounded grievously. Nothing remotely edible had escaped the famished huskies.
It is evident that Jack London loved the play of ideas swirling about a scene containing both the wild ancestors and the domesticated carnivores. Buck may have been a strange Southland dog, but potentially he was a ferocious one. Inevitably his mettle would be tested in a clash for leadership with a dog named Spitz.
The party sought to reach Dawson. There were many men and countless dogs in Dawson. Afterwards they, Buck's party of men and dogs, went onto the Yukon Trail. The first day they accomplished a fifty mile run. Buck continued to challenge Spitz. He also gave way to wild delight. He sampled ecstacy, the summit of life in the great chase for prey. Buck bested Spitz. Next Buck prevailed on the men through rebellion to place him at the lead position. Buck became the giver of the law, (this is another theme running through Jack London's works).
For fourteen days they averaged forty miles. After Skagway Francois and Perrault left for other pursuits. Buck and the dogs carried the mail. In less than five months they traveled twenty five hundred miles. The team, exhausted, fell into the hands of inexperienced owners. The sled was overloaded. A fourteen dog team meant starvation because it was not possible to carry enough dog food for the journey.
The reality of Arctic conditions became too harsh for the people to bear. In their own misery they became callous to the suffering of the animals. At John Thornton's camp Buck refused to get up because he sensed that something was amiss. Thornton undertook to save Buck and the other members of the team and people drowned in the thawed ice. Buck became lavish in his love for Thornton. In the course of time he rubbed noses with a wolf, the call of the wild. Following Thornton's death Buck joined the wolf pack and became a ghost dog. In a London tale Social Darwinism, the struggle for existence, overwhelms everything else. The story is sharp, brutal, compelling.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing, Powerful, Compelling...Wow!
Comment: I've always wanted to read the classics, but up until I picked this book up I'd been reading illustrated editions adapted for young readers, none of which had much effect on me. Then I picked up the real thing -- and what a thing it is. In "The Call of the Wild," Jack London pulls the reader in from page one and never lets go. The only words for it are Amazing, Powerful, Compelling and Wow.
This immersive and compelling story of Buck, a high-socioty dog who is kidnapped during the Gold Rush, beginning a journey to the frozen North and to his wild wolf roots, is action-packed and ever fast-paced, and yet told with incridible care paid to description. London draws the reader's attention to even the smallest details and yet never bores; any writer who can do this successfully has my upmost respect.
This novella is nothing less then perfect. no literate dog lover should miss it. It will deepen your love and respect for the canine species. Essensial reading! ***** (5/5)
Rating: 4
Summary: a book that is full of lessons
Comment: Jack London is a good writer, he puts his readers in the story and teaches you the same lessons as the characters in the book. In the book there is good detail with the things that happen to show what really goes on. If you are a animail person this is a good book for you!
 |
Title: White Fang (Puffin Classics) by Jack London, Annabel Large ISBN: 0140366679 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
 |
Title: Treasure Island (Signet Classic) by Robert Louis Stevenson ISBN: 0451527046 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
 |
Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, John Seelye ISBN: 0140390839 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
 |
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne ISBN: 059043053X Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
 |
Title: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane ISBN: 0812504798 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
