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"...especially helpful to teachers or students
who....need to consider alternatives to the ubiquitous book report.
Recommended."
The
GaleGroup (print)
Jack London’s
adventure tale The Call of the Wild
explores complex relationships between man and nature, and animals’ struggle
with their own nature in man’s world.
In this interdisciplinary study, a
rich selection of primary documents point out the many issues that make this story as poignant and pertinent today as
when it was written nearly a century ago.
Compiled here for the first time is documentation
from sources as varied as century-old newspaper accounts, legislative
materials, advertisements, poetry, journals, and other startling firsthand
accounts. The story’s historical
setting, the Yukon Gold Rush, is
brought vividly into focus for readers, with firsthand accounts of the unimaginable hardships faced by the prospectors
in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold Fields.
In addition, this online sourcebook provides the user access to:
- E-Text and
concordance of The Call of the Wild
- Yukon Gold Rush Photo
Gallery
- Digital Exhibit of
Eric Hegg’s photographs of thousands of gold seekers as they endured harsh
conditions in sub-zero temperatures
- Primary material on
Alaska’s Gold Rush, including photos, newspaper articles, diary entries and
correspondence
- Jack London Online
Collection: Documents, Images, Writings
and Bibliographies
- Photos and
descriptions of The Gold Rush Trails from Dyea through the Chilkoot Pass
- Educational audio
site of wolf sounds, including images and history
- Map of Yukon
Territory and Alaska geography
- Multimedia Museum of
the Cultural Histories of Arctic Exploration
- Native Alaskans and
the Gold Rush: Primary material and commentary on the impact the Gold Rush had
on native Alaskans
- Hudson Bay
Company: The fur trade in Canada and
how it led to the exploration of the country
- Sites on the
evolution of the wolf with photos detailing wolf/canid fossil specimens, and
the molecular evolution of the dog family
- History and photos of
the St. Bernard dog and other breeds featured in The Call of the Wild
- The Making of a Sled
Dog site
- Photo montage of the
1925 Sled Dog Diphtheria Rescue
- E-Texts to Jack
London’s White Fang, The Sea Wolf, The
Son of the Wolf, Batard, The Story of Jees Uck, The One Thousand Dozen, To
Build a Fire, Lost Face and others
- E-Texts to Black Beauty, Beautiful Joe, Uncle Tom’s
Cabin, Bob, Son of Battle, The Dark
Brown Dog, The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, and more
- Glossary of cultural
references and historical idioms from The
Call of the Wild
- Web-based study
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