A wolf-dog born in the frozen wild learns the harsh laws of survival before finding trust and kindness
From the wild to a home
In the frozen Yukon, a wolf cub is born to a mother who is part dog. He is the only one of the litter to survive the hungry winter, and he learns the hard laws of the wild: eat or be eaten. When he and his mother come to a camp of native people, he enters the world of humans, where he must learn new and often cruel rules.
Who will enjoy it
Readers aged about ten and up and adults who love animal stories, wilderness adventure and tales of redemption.
What you will get
A powerful, moving adventure about survival and redemption, showing how cruelty hardens and kindness heals, told through the eyes of a remarkable wolf-dog.
White Fang Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Classics · Wolf · Yukon · Adventure
Length
288 pages · ≈ 8 h
More about this book
London wrote White Fang as a mirror image of The Call of the Wild: instead of a tame dog returning to the wild, a wild creature slowly becomes tame. The opening chapters follow two men and their sled dogs pursued by a starving wolf pack across the frozen land, before the story turns to the cub, his mother Kiche and his first discoveries of light, hunger, fear and the joy of the hunt.
Living with his first master, Gray Beaver, White Fang becomes a fierce, lonely sled dog, hated by the other dogs. He is later sold to a cruel man called Beauty Smith, who turns him into a fighting dog, and he nearly dies in a battle with a bulldog. Rescued by Weedon Scott, a gentle mining engineer, he slowly learns to trust and even to love, and he follows Scott to California, where he must adjust to a very different life. The animal fights are vivid, but the story's heart is redemption.
Classic, gripping and moving, for young and adult readers alike. About 288 pages in the Puffin Classics paperback.
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