Author:  Jack London
Pages:  68 (Available Only In Paperback)

A fiercely spirited tale of the frenzy of the gold rush days, as well as the story of a journey from civilized domestication to a truly wild state of being in the frozen North.  Buck, a large mixed breed dog, is kidnapped from an easy life in California and sold into slavery, as it were, as a sled dog for prospectors searching for gold in Alaska.  He learns what he is made of as he is tested by man and beast and a cruel, unforgiving climate and terrain. He learns that survival is made of equal parts fear, loyalty, combat and love.