White Fang is quite a powerful book to read. The author and activist, Jack London, wrote it as a sequel to The Call of the Wild; both equally compelling books of nature and the nature of mankind.
It is a very good book for children to learn some of the ways of man but it is also a riveting story of a 1/2 dog, 1/2 wolf, named, you guessed it, White Fang, and the trials and joys at the different stages of his life, which he endured and enjoyed, respectively.
This book is also a kind of historical fiction set in the Gold Rush days in the Klondike of the Yukon in north-western Canada. It is therefore an exciting read for adults as well. A parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle, and so on, may be enthused to read the book aloud to their child, grandchild, or niece/nephew, some cold or wet and wild afternoons (or whenever).
The copy on our bookshelves of White Fang is a very well illustrated one with many fabulous pictures of White Fang, but also of other creatures that roam the Yukon region and of the homes and igloos of white man and North American Indian (Indigenous Native Peoples) of 1896-1899 era timeframe. A variety of Huskies and dog sleds and their drivers, wolves, moose, prospectors, snowy landscapes, weasels, bobcats, cougars, porcupines, ptarmigans and all manner of man and beast against each other and the wild; all well documented in picutres.
The story line combined with quality photographs will have you reading and rereading, and examining and re-examining the pages of the book for many mesmerizing hours to come. Invest in a copy of the book today. I very much doubt you would be disappointed.
Mush. Mush.*
~ERC April 2021~
*dog sled language = move forward
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