The Call of the Wild is a short experience novel by Jack London, distributed in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when solid sled canines were sought after.

The focal character of the novel is a canine named Buck.

The story opens at a farm in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is taken from his home and sold into administration as a sled canine in Alaska.

He turns out to be logically more crude and wild in the cruel climate, where he is compelled to battle to get by and overwhelm different canines.

By and by, he sheds the facade of human advancement, and depends on early stage intuition and learned insight to arise as an innovator in nature.