Popular Penguins: Call of the Wild

Popular Penguins: Call of the Wild by Jack London


ISBN
9780141194882
Published
Released
01 / 07 / 2010
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288
Dimensions
112 x 180 x 18mm

Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck must fight for his survival. Can he rise above his enemies and become the master of his realm once again?
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Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck must fight for his survival. Can he rise above his enemies and become the master of his realm once again?
ISBN:
9780141194882
Publication Date:
01 / 07 / 2010
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
112 x 180 x 18mm
Untitled
London tells us a yarn in the good ol’ fashioned Boys Own style with The Call of the Wild. We follow the interior life of a dog named Buck, from an unduly civilized Lord of his Domain dog, into a near-mythical creature of the wild, a kind of spirit animal. And there’s more to it if we want to listen. He’s a plucky, very human hound to begin. He has a sense of morality, the narrator tells us, and he can be ‘taken aback’. He learns the difference between his previous life and the life of club and fang slowly, at first. London is coy (also, at first) in whether or not this is actually development or regression. But the survival is always a subject-survival in relation to how Buck is related to the human beings around him that are the functional point of his universe. From the Eden-esque life with ‘the Judge’ (God?) he is cast out into the functional service to competent but demanding masters, and he learns the pleasure of doing good work, good service, and pride. But he soon discovers the dependence upon the human-other when faced with Charles and Hal and Mercedez: two incompetent men entrapped by a woman. Is this London's metaphor for the direction our over-stuffed social-political sled is headed? Straight into Death? Even once Buck finds 'true love' in John Thornton, that love is challenged by pride and greed; and it’s this pride and greed then that allows Buck to eventually answer the Call to becoming his true nature, a trinity of wolf and saint (Bernard) and shepherd. The Way the Truth and the Life? The creature the Yeehats will deify as the Ghost Dog. - Jeremy (QBD)
, 12/03/2017

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