Jack London
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Featuring eight works of short fiction, South Sea Tales by Jack London is an adventurous collection with a nautical theme. With settings on islands or ships, South Sea Tales tell the exciting, but often heartbreaking tales of violence, colonialism, and racism. The House of Mapuhi follows the son of a trading magnate, who travels from island to island buying valuable items for his mother's business. When he learns of a brilliant pearl owned by one...
2) Adventure
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
He was a very sick white man. He rode pick-a-back on a woolly-headed, black-skinned savage, the lobes of whose ears had been pierced and stretched until one had torn out, while the other carried a circular block of carved wood three inches in diameter. The torn ear had been pierced again, but this time not so ambitiously, for the hole accommodated no more than a short clay pipe. The man-horse was greasy and dirty, and naked save for an exceedingly...
6) White Fang
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures in the northern wilderness of a dog who is part wolf and how he comes to make his peace with man.
7) The sea wolf
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Sea-Wolf (1904) is an adventure novel by American writer Jack London. Inspired by his acquaintance Captain Alex MacLean, a sailor from the Pacific Northwest, London sought to write a novel of the high seas with psychological and philosophical underpinnings.
An intelligent scholar named Humphrey van Weyden boards a ferry in San Francisco. Lost in the fog, the Martinez collides with another ship, and van Weyden is tossed overboard. Afloat in the...
8) Jack London
Author
Series
Graphic classics volume 5
Publisher
Eureka Productions
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
144 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was so cold that his spit froze in the air before it hit the ground. He was so far above the Artic Circle that the sun never rose. Seventy below zero, and there was nothing but whiteness in every direction: ice and snow. No trees, no houses, no wood, no warmth.
He had only a few matches and a handful of frozen fingers. And yet, to survive, he had to build a fire...
Jack London's tales of adventure were unsurpassed because London was there. From...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lake 7 Creative
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
160 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stolen from his life as a beloved pet, Buck must learn to adapt to abuse as a Klondike sled dog, to life with a loving master, John Thornton, and finally, when Thornton dies, to life in the wild as a leader of the wolf pack.
11) White fang
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
240 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Chartwell Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are two classic American adventure novels depicting the evolution of two dogs in the wild. The novels are in fact mirror images of one another, as Call of the Wild depicts Buck's journey from domestic to wild dog, while White Fang recounts White Fang's transformation from wild beast to domestic companion. Both convey powerful themes of redemption and survival that continue to affect readers even today....
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this film is the story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team, and later its leader, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2001
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Four stories set in the Klondike, including the classic adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
Author
Series
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
153 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve.
Here is the ultimate dog story, one filled with emotion, adventure, and excitement.
During the Gold Rush, Buck is snatched away from his peaceful...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011, c1993
Physical Desc
3 videodisc (625 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
White Fang the television series is an adaptation of Jack London's similarly titled novel. These are the tales of a teenage boy, Matt Scott, who is devoted to his loyal canine companion, White Fang, and the adventures they share in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.
Publisher
Distributed by Allumination FilmWorks
Pub. Date
2008, c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Buck is a canine hero who faces adventures in a turn of the century Alaskan mining town and the surrounding area of Forty-Mile. Buck spends his time with his human friends Miles, and Miles' friends John and Adoley Thornton. Miles is a 15-year-old boy whose life will be forever changed after he encounters the heroic and powerful Buck.
20) White Fang
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd.(stereo.), col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story of a young man who hopes to strike it rich in the Yukon gold country at the turn of the century and his relationship with the wolf-dog White Fang.