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【答案】 The Call of the Wild
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The Call of the Wild
First edition cover
Author Jack London
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Adventure novel
Publisher Macmillan
Publication date 1903
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 140 pp
ISBN NA
OCLC 28228581
Followed by White Fang
The Call of the Wild ---- Plot summary
Buck,the main character,is a 140 lb Saint Bernard/Scotch Shepherd cross,which gives him the appearance of an exceptionally large dog.Buck leads a fortable life as the pet of Judge Miller in the Santa Clara Valley of Northern California.Judge Miller's gardener's assistant,Manuel,abducts the dog and sells him to a trainer of sled dogs,which were in great demand due to the discovery of a yellow metal in the frozen lands of the Yukon.Slowly introduced to the brutality of his new life,Buck is forced to survive and adapt to conditions in Alaska and the Yukon.He works pulling sleds with other dogs,learns to steal food,and engages in power struggle with other dogs for the lead position in the sled team.His owners soon learn that even though his enemy,Spitz,is a devil, Buck is two devils. He bees the leader of the sled team after defeating Spitz in a battle.He changes hands many times before he is eventually acquired by a kind and loving owner,John Thornton.When Thornton is killed by Yeehat native Americans,Buck goes into a beastly rage and kills several members of the native tribe.Buck returns to the wild and bees the alpha male of a wolf pack he met a few days before the death of Thornton.Of the world Buck enters,London writes the salient thing of this other world seemed fear. It is a world of dream that Buck enters,when he bees something of a legend.