Set against the natural beauty of south sea islands and alive with the hazards of headhunters, sharks, storms and disease, these eight powerful short stories include 'Mauki,' which tells of a young Melanesian sold into slavery; as well as 'The Terrible Solomons,' 'The House of Mapuhi,' 'The Whale To[...]
Considered to be Jack London's masterpiece, this story features Buck, a dog shipped to the Klondike to be trained as a sled dog. Buck eventually reverts to his primitive ancestry, and learns about the savage world of man and beast in the wilderness.[...]
Another outstanding title in the acclaimed series described as "a CD-ROM between covers."
White Fang was written as the companion book to Jack London's classic 1903 runaway bestseller The Call of the Wild. Seen through the eyes of White Fang--who is half dog, half wolf--the[...]
"Raw and Raked, Wild and Free..."...that was the way Jack London saw life, and the more he lived it the more enamored of it he became. "All I saw," he once wrote, "was glamor of conquest, of scarlet adventure and yellow gold. ...The life was brave and wild, and I was living the adventure I had read [...]
Impressed into service aboard the seal-hunting "Ghost," Humphrey Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a tense shipboard drama. With a wary eye, he watches the vessel's abusive captain, Wolf Larsen, an enigma who can abandon two sailors on the open water, then return to reading the moral ph[...]
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of this classic novella that details the adventures of Humphrey Van Weyden aboard the IT>Ghost, a seal-hunting vessel, this stellar volume also features four of London's most renowned short stories. Original.[...]
Out of the white wilderness, out of the Far North, London, one of America's most popular authors, drew the inspiration for the novel "The Call of the Wild" and five short stories included in this anthology. Revised reissue.[...]
Two classic stories-one indispensable volume.
Timeless tales of wolves, dogs, men, and the wild, "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" are two of the world's greatest adventure stories.
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Follow Buck, a domestic dog, as he travels back to his kind's roots and runs with the wolves. Taken from his home in the Santa Clara Valley, Buck is taken to the Northland during the Klondike gold rush and finally returns to nature. "The Call of the Wild" was and is one Jack London's finest works. L[...]
Jack London (1876-1916), at his peak, was the highest paid and the most popular of all living writers. Because of financial difficulties, he was largely self educated past grammar school. A large part of his knowledge was obtained from the Oakland Public Library. London draws heavily on his life exp[...]
Five exciting tales that epitomize Jack London's mastery of the adventure story: "The White Silence," "In a Far Country," "An Odyssey of the North," "The Sigh of McCoy" and "The Mexican." Publisher's Note.
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Follow Buck, a domestic dog, as he travels back to his kind's roots and runs with the wolves. Taken from his home in the Santa Clara Valley, Buck is taken to the Northland during the Klondike gold rush and finally returns to nature. "The Call of the Wild" was and is one Jack London's finest works. L[...]
Jack London (1876-1916), at his peak, was the highest paid and the most popular of all living writers. Because of financial difficulties, he was largely self educated past grammar school. A large part of his knowledge was obtained from the Oakland Public Library. London draws heavily on his life exp[...]
Buck, a sturdy crossbreed canine, is seized from his pampered family surroundings and shipped to the forbidding landscape of the Alaskan frontier to be a sled dog. As gripping today as it was when first published over a century ago, this classic tale of survival remains one of London's most popular [...]
A road novel fifty years before Kerouac, "The Valley of the Moon" traces the odyssey of Billy and Saxon Roberts from the labor strife of Oakland at the turn of the century through Central and Northern California in search of land they can farm independently - a journey that echoes Jack London's own [...]
Torn by a quirk of fate from his life as a dilettante and intellectual, Humphrey van Weydon finds himself at the whim of the ruthless Wolf Larsen. The two men -- the one youthful, idealistic, and upper-class, the other ruthless, dangerous, self-taught and self-determined -- inevitably become adversa[...]
"The Call Of The Wild" is the story of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrust into the merciless life of the Arctic north to endure hardship, bitter cold, and the savage lawlessness of man and beast. "White Fang" is the adventure of an animal -- part dog, part wolf --turned vicious by cruel abu[...]
To Build A Fire and Other Stories is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of Jack London's short stories available in paperback. This superb volume brings together twenty-five of London's finest, including a dozen of his great Klondike stories, vivid tales of the Far North were rugged [...]
A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas, The Sea-Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. It is the vivid story of a gentleman scholar, Humphrey Van Weyden, who is rescued by a seal-hunting schooner after a ferryboat accident in San Francisco Bay. London uses Van Weyden's ordeal[...]
'With passion and vision, he used his skill as a journalist to expose the horrors of the Abyss to the world ...Poverty is war, and it rages on with no end in sight, and the management is still guilty of mismanaging the wealth. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, the People of the Abyss are among us today.'[...]