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An unforgettable northern odyssey! Abducted from his safe home in California, thrown into a life and death struggle in the cold Arctic wilderness, the offspring of a San Bernard and a Scottish Shepherd, Buck receives numerous difficult lessons as a sled dog. But the greatest lesson he learned from his last master, John Thornton: on the power of love and loyalty. But even when he's by the side of the man he loves, Buck feels a call in his bones, a longing to answer his wild ancestors who have been howling at him for millennia.

In 1903. Jack London sold „The Wild is Calling“ to a publisher for the modest fee of $2,000 and never received another cent from the book. It subsequently became a true phenomenon, printed in millions of copies, translated into more than 50 languages, and became a timeless classic that continues to win countless readers around the world. The reason for this is the very uniqueness of this novel. It is a raw and almost romantic story, but with deep philosophical roots, behind which one can feel the influence of such colossuses of thought as Darwin, Spencer and Nietzsche. Thus, captivated by the author's inimitable style, the engaging narrative and the book's intellectual charge, the reader soon discovers that there is a literary gold here that outshines all of Klondike's golden finds. Jack London has been a tramp, an oyster poacher, a seal hunter, a docker, a fireman, a factory worker, a war correspondent, and a gold prospector. But it wasn't until he turned to writing that he was able to turn his adventurous experiences into the thrilling stories that have long made him one of the world's most beloved writers of all time.