White Fang White Fang's Journey to Domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories During the 1890S Klondike Gold Rush - Jack London

WHITE FANG
White Fang's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush
Synopsis

• Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness-a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.

• White Fang, novel by Jack London, published in 1906. The novel was intended as a companion piece to The Call of the Wild (1903), in which a domesticated dog reverts to a wild state. White Fang is the story of a wolf dog that is rescued from its brutal owner and gradually becomes domesticated through the patience and kindness of its new owner, Weedon Scott. White Fang eventually defends Scott's father from attack by an escaped convict.
• First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story details White Fang's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.
• As early as 1925, the story influenced The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The story was also adapted to film, and it has since seen several more cinematic adaptations, including a 1991 film starring Ethan Hawke and a 2018 original film for Netflix.

John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", and "An Odyssey of the North". Notable books by Jack London are:

1. The Son of the Wolf
2. The God of his Fathers & Other Stories
3. A Daughter of the Snows
4. The Call of the Wild
5. The Sea Wolf
6. The Faith of Men & Other Stories
7. Tales of the Fish Patrol
8. Moon-Face & Other Stories
9. White Fang
10. Love of Life & Other Stories
11. The Iron Heel
12. Martin Eden
13. Burning Daylight
14. Lost Face
15. The Abysmal Brute
16. South Sea Tales
17. When God Laughs & Other Stories
18. The Scarlet Plague
19. The House of Pride
20. The Valley of the Moon
21. The Mutiny of the Elsinore
22. The Strength of the Strong
23. The Star Rover
24. The Little Lady of the Big House
25. The Turtles of Tasman
26. Jerry of the Islands
27. On the Makaloa Mat
28. Children of the Frost
29. Dutch Courage and Other Stories