“He was sounding the deeps of his nature and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he going back into the womb of Time.” The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903 and set in Yukon Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley California when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively primitive and wild in the harsh environment where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs.
