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Informationen zum Autor John Griffith "Jack" London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone, including science fiction. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. Klappentext In a quintessential adventure story about Buck, a dog stolen by dog traffickers during the Alaskan Klondike gold rush of the 1890s, the pampered pet comes face to face with his primordial existence. Majestic, full-color paintings accompany this famous story by author Jack London. Zusammenfassung In this quintessential adventure story! Jack London takes readers on an arduous journey through the forbidding Alaskan landscape during the gold rush of the 1890s. Buck! a rangy mixed breed used to a comfortable! sun-filled life as a family dog! is stolen by a greedy opportunist and sold to dog traffickers. In no time! Buck finds himself on a team of sled dogs run ragged in the harsh winter of the Klondike. In a climate where every day is a savage struggle for survival! the last traces of Buck's soft! pampered existence are erased as his dormant primordial urges -- deeply embedded for generations -- are brutally awakened. The superb detail! taken from London's firsthand knowledge of Alaskan frontier life! makes this classic tale as gripping today as it was almost a hundred years ago. No other novel has so clearly shown the fragile separation between tame and wild! between man and beast. Now! paired with master illustrator Wendell Minor's exquisite paintings! this timeless story is available in a handsome new addition to the Scribner Illustrated Classics collection. ...
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Jack London (1876–1916) was a prolific American novelist and short story writer. His most notable works include White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and The Sea-Wolf. He was born in San Francisco, California.Wendell Minor has illustrated dozens of picture books, and his work has won countless awards and is in permanent collections of such institutions as the Museum of American Illustration and the Library of Congress. His cover illustrations have graced some of the most significant novels of our time by authors such as Toni Morrison, David McCullough, and James Michener. He lives in Washington, Connecticut. Visit him online at MinorArt.com.
