![]() ![]() He is sold to a Canadian government official named Perrault and gradually becomes the leader of their sled dog team. In the late 1890s, Buck is an aristocratic St Bernard mix who rules over a raisin-growing plantation owned by Judge Miller, until a worker kidnaps him, where he travels by train from San Francisco up to Seattle before being broken harshly by a dog-trader selling stock to miners prospecting for gold in the Klondike region. ![]() He was also as aggressively masculine as Gaston and Ron Swanson blended together, which possibly explains why I (Wes) never much enjoyed reading him in college (I was an English major) and why I haven’t read the book until now. ![]() Jack London, everyone knows, was the author of the 1903 novel The Call of the Wild, which is generally considered the best dog book ever written when it comes to fiction. By Wesley Coburn 3 years ago As part of our “Dog-Eared Reads” series of book reviews, today we look at one of the classics of dog literature in Jack London’s “The Call of the Wild.” ![]()
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