The Call of the Wild (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Jack London
- First Published: 1903
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: 1897
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Adventure
- Subjects: Values, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Dogs, Nature, Nineteenth century, Death or dying, Good and evil, Human behavior, Adventure, Ice, Alaska, Arctic, Wolves, Yukon, Gold mines or mining, Prospecting or prospectors, Wildlife, Snow
- Locales: Yukon Territory, Canada
Places Discussed
*Yukon River basin. Region of mountains, glaciers, forests, and rivers. This place was well known to Jack London, an eager participant in the Klondike gold rush of 1897. Buck, stolen from Judge Miller’s place in California, is taken north where he is pressed into service as a sled dog, repeatedly making the grueling round trip between Dyea, on the coast, and Dawson, the rough-hewn territorial capital more than four hundred miles inland. In winter, this trip encompasses 95 miles of ice-packed lakes and 350 miles of frozen river. The lakes (Marsh, Tagish,...
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