巴克是一只壮硕的狗；它的主人米勒先生，住在加州。1897年，人们在北极发现金矿，需要壮狗拉金子到城镇。曼纽尔是米勒先生的员工，他很爱钱。有一天他趁人不注意时，偷偷将巴克牵去卖给一个人，但是巴克并不喜欢那个人，不断地想从那人手中挣脱；最后巴克和其他的狗被送到阿拉斯加运送金子。到阿拉斯加的隔天，巴克就目睹另一只狗克力，因无法适应而被其他狗活活咬死的惨剧。虽然巴克尽量努力的学习拉车，但是它的主人对它一直很不友善；不久它发现狗群中有两只竟然对拉车很起劲；巴克也渐渐学到，在这群野狗之中，生存的要诀和技巧是要有野性。有一天，巴克因另一只狗班长占据它的窝而和它打起来，正当此时，突然间出现一群野狗来征食它们的食物，并且咬伤它们。隔天有一只母狗桃莉，似乎发疯了，它突然攻击巴克，幸好得到它的主人及时解救。天气越来越暖和，它们的拉车旅途也越来越危险，好几次都因冰薄而掉人冰河差一点丧命。为了赚钱，它们必须趁天气好的日子延长工作时间，主人因此为巴克穿上靴子。它们白天像马一般，半夜对着天空枭鸣。
The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated happy dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events leads to his serving as a sled dog in the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush, in which sled dogs were bought at generous prices. Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is London's most-read book, and it is generally considered his best, the masterpiece of his so-called "early period". Because the protagonist is a dog, it is sometimes classified as a juvenile novel, suitable for children, but it is dark in tone and contains numerous scenes of cruelty and violence. London followed the book in 1906 with White Fang, a companion novel with many similar plot elements and themes as Call of the Wild, although following a mirror image plot in which a wild wolf becomes civilized by a mining expert from San Francisco named Weedon Scott.
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