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Category: Travel Writing
From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, 'dark tourism' is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or ...Show more
Burning Daylight by Jack London
Category: Fiction
Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893.
Call Of The Wild by Jack London
Category: CHILDREN'S MIDDLE FICTION
The Call of the Wild tells the story of a domesticated dog called Buck, stolen from his easy life and propelled into the world of the Klondike Gold Rush. Buck begins to hear the call of the wild as his hard journey continues. The book's compact format and rich colour illustrations make it a must have fo ...Show more
Call Of The Wild by Jack London
Category: Classic | Series: Collins Classics
‘Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and . . . he felt compelled to turn his back upon the fire, and to plunge into the forest.’ Half St. Bernard, half sheepdog, Buck is stolen away from his comfortable life as a pet in California and sold to dog traders. He soon finds himself aboard a ship, on its ...Show more
Call of the Wild by Jack. London; Bogdan Meunier (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction
The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, ...Show more
Call of the Wild (Classic Starts®) by Jack London; Oliver Ho (Abridged by); Karl James Mountford (Illustrator); Arthur Pober (Afterword by)
Category: Children's | Series: Classic Starts® Ser.
During the gold rush, Buck is snatched away from his peaceful home and brought to the harsh and bitter Yukon to become a sled dog. Will he adapt to life as a member of a sled pack? Or will his newly awakened instincts lead him to search for the freedom he has never known?