Kidnapped form his safe California home. Thrown into a life-and-death struggle on the frozen Artic wilderness. Half St. Bernard, half shepard, Buck learns many hard lessons as a sled dog: the lesson of the leash, of the cold, of near-starvation and cruelty. And the greatest lesson he learns from his last owner, John Thornton: the power of love and loyalty.Yet always, even at the side of the human … the human he loves, Buck feels the pull in his bones, an urge to answer his wolf ancestors as they howl to him.
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I don’t think I could write a decent review except to say I loved the book when I read it. That reading was in 7th grade … well more than 60 years ago. Maybe it’s time to have the pleasure of a reread!
Love most of his books. Read this for the first time at 8 years old. still pick it up every few years
This was one of my favorite books as a child. Growing up in almost-never snowy NC, I loved reading survival adventures from Alaska. Also, dogs. I loved stories about dogs. Of course, I read White Fang shortly after.
This is the book that started my love of reading many years ago. Good book for young people, well written and easy to understand. If you have young children buy them this book, better yet read it to them.
I read this in my early teens and loved the descriptions of the wilderness. The between the lines life lessons of the story alluded me at the time. To this day I love authors whose descriptive writing take me to places I have never been.
My favorite childhood book.
Growing up on a farm in northern Minnesota, I ran a trap line for spending money and fantasized about being in the Alaskan bush as I walked miles through the snow. London’s prose fascinated me.
5 star all the way !!!!!
This is currently my favorite book. I picked it up and didn’t put it down until I finished it. Buck will have you rooting for him throughout the entire story.
I’m going to review this now that have read it again…50+ years later. In other words now that I am no longer a young kid in high school. Far from it. I had a horrid time reading this, the hurt, the cruelty. While I, like many others, seem to be hardened to your everyday shoot ’em up tv shows but this book hurt my heart.
There’s another side to this book though; another perspective. I think it tells the story of people. Now that I have lived and worked and climbed both in a performance and a business career, I realize this is a story of life, a survival of the fittest book. A story about a dog eat dog world. A picture of the harsh fact that the meaner people are to us; the meaner and harder we become just to survive. As much as we can love we still long to run away.
Is it worth the time to read? I think so. It’s well written and even though it may be a little tough to take now and then, it’s worth the picture it paints.
I’m a huge dog, Alaska, and mushing fan!
One of my favorite books. It’s a classic. Loved it as a child, loved it as an adult. It’s a book for everyone.
Great book for nature lovers.
This is one of the books that helped set me on the path to become a writer.
Unmatched prose, compelling protagonist, compelling questions of nature vs nurture.
You will cry.
One of my favorite classics. The story of a dog and the people he knows, finally ending in what seems to be a good place. I am always sorry for the ending. And I keep coming back to it every few years.
Wonderful classic and a must read for readers of all ages.