Jack London s two most beloved tales of survival in Alaska were inspired by his experiences in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush.
There he suffers from the brutal extremes of nature and equally brutal treatm.
The canine hero of The Call of the Wild is Buck, a pampered pet in California who is stolen and forced to be a sled dog in the Alaskan wilderness.
Both novels grippingly dramatize the harshness of the natural world and what lies beneath the thin veneer of human civilization.
Jack London s two most beloved tales of survival in Alaska were inspired by his experiences in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush