On its face, the novel is the story of Buck, a dog stolen from his comfortable home on a California ranch and shipped to the frozen Yukon to be a trained as a sled dog.

But this exhilarating tale of a canine hero's fight for survival is in fact a vivid depiction of the great gold rush to the Klondike in 1897.

Brutal and fierce on one hand, this iconic adventure story is also a heart-warming tale of the tenderness and loyalty between humans and animals, brilliantly told from the latter's perspective.