title: The Call of the Wild: Annotated and Illustrated
author: Jack London
description: This low-priced edition of London's 1903 classic offers good value for the money. It is not only illustrated and annotated, but it also includes a bibliography, a chronology of events, and a scholarly introduction by editor Dyer. A real bargain for the price.<BR>Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  # The Call of the Wild
  
  
  ## Jack London
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chapter I. Into the Primitive
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
  "Old longings nomadic leap,
  
  
  Chafing at custom's chain;
  
  
  Again from its brumal sleep
  
  
  Wakens the ferine strain."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that
  
  
  trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tidewater
  
  
  dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget
  
  
  Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness,
  
  
  had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation
  
  
  companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing
  
  
  into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they
  
  
  wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and
  
  
  furry coats to protect them from the frost.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley.
  
  
  Judge Miller's place, it was called. It stood back from t