About the Book: The Call Of The Wild
"There is a patience of the wild—dogged, tireless, persistent as life
itself—that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake
in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to
life when it hunts its living food; and it belonged to Buck as he clung to the
flank of the herd . . ."
Stolen from his home in Santa Clara Valley, California, Buck—a powerful St.
Bernard-Scotch Shepherd who is the pampered pet of Judge Miller—is kidnapped,
sold, and shipped to Canada where he is trained as a sled dog. Ill-treated and
subjected