![]() ![]() He knew the territory and he loved the wild country that he found there. London himself went to the Yukon during the gold rush, when the story is set. Like a lot of great works, White Fang stems from real-life experience. We go from his mother's fun and games hunting humans for food, to his birth, to a series of human masters both kind and cruel, and finally to a nice comfy California estate where he can get some R&R after getting pretty thoroughly pummeled by life. He's nice enough to divide the book into five neat parts, each one corresponding to a phase of White Fang's life. Combining his love of the wilderness, his insight into human nature, and his borderline racism against Native Americans, London tells the story of a wolf pup born in the wild and run through the mother of all ringers (and the ringer of all mothers). ![]() The panorama of humanity's unfailing ability to screw everything up is seen through the eyes of a barely domesticated wolf in Jack London's epic White Fang. ![]()
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