'''The Call of the Wild''' is a 1903 [[novel]] by [[Jack London]] which depicts the struggles of Buck, formerly a domestic [[dog]], to adapt to the harsh, unforgiving environment and life of a sled dog in [[Alaska]]. The story-line is employed as a mechanism for examining the interplay between nature and nurture as Buck's primitive, instinctual nature reasserts itself and gradually comes to the fore. | '''The Call of the Wild''' is a 1903 [[novel]] by [[Jack London]] which depicts the struggles of Buck, formerly a domestic [[dog]], to adapt to the harsh, unforgiving environment and life of a sled dog in [[Alaska]]. The story-line is employed as a mechanism for examining the interplay between nature and nurture as Buck's primitive, instinctual nature reasserts itself and gradually comes to the fore. |