the call of the wild

     

1903 Jack London work in which a dog, half St. Bernard, half Scotch shepherd, survives the wilderness

Trivia about the call of the wild

  • Buck has unfamiliar yearnings & stirrings when he hears it
  • London:"El Llamado de la Selva"
  • In this 1903 book, Buck, a dog in California, is stolen & taken to the Klondike
  • In this Jack London novel, Francois says, "Nevaire such a dog as dat Buck!"
  • Buck is a pampered dog that's stolen & taken to the Yukon during the Gold Rush in this novel
  • In this novel, Judge Miller's gardener's helper Manuel kidnaps the dog Buck & sells him to pay his gambling debts
  • London, not England /The ghost dog of the Klondike /Here, Buck! Speak! Sit! Stay!
  • It ends, "His... throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack"
  • This novel begins, "Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing"
  • In this Jack London novel, a dog named Buck is stolen from the Miller family & reduced to mush dog in Alaska

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