Buck was a domesticated dog once — pampered, comfortable, and entirely unprepared for what was coming. Stolen from his California home and hurled into the brutal wilderness of the Alaskan Klondike, Buck discovers a world where kindness is rare, cruelty is common, and only the strongest survive. With every mile of frozen trail, every fight, every hardship, something ancient and unstoppable stirs within him. Part adventure, part primal awakening — The Call of the Wild is Jack London at his most elemental. A story about what lives beneath the surface of every creature, waiting for the wild to call it home.