White Fang charts the reverse journey, as a fierce wolf-dog hybrid born in the wild is eventually tamed.
There he suffers from the brutal extremes of nature and equally brutal treatment by a series of masters, until he learns to heed his long-buried instincts and turn his back on civilization. The canine hero of The Call of the Wild is Buck, a pampered pet in California who is stolen and forced to be a sled dog in the Alaskan wilderness. Both novels grippingly dramatize the harshness of the natural world and what lies beneath the thin veneer of human civilization. He died by an overdose of morphine, which he was taking to ward off the pain of his diseases, and there is some debate about whether his death was accidental, or a suicide.Jack London’s two most beloved tales of survival in Alaska were inspired by his experiences in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. Nonetheless, he continued publishing his writing in periodicals, thrilling his readers with adventure stories until his death in 1916. During his adventures, London picked up many diseases that left him in deep pain and also contributed to his growing alcoholism. London also was an advocate of the rights of workers, unionization, and socialism, and wrote a number of novels on those topics. London lasted a year in the Yukon, and returned to California with a wealth of material for his stories, among them The Call of the Wild, his most famous work, and White Fang, its companion. London attended the University of California Berkeley for one semester, before dropping out to seek out his fortune in the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897.
He worked in a cannery, hunted for oysters in San Francisco bay, traveled across the U.S., and sailed around the Pacific, all before graduating from high school at age 19. London spent his youth traveling around California with his family, where he developed a taste for adventure. Young Jack took his stepfather's surname, London, when Flora married later that year. Jack London was born out of wedlock in 1876 to Flora Wellman Chaney.
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