Product Description

Living the good life in the South, Buck is transported to the savagery of the Northland, where the Klondike Gold Rush has brought out rough basic instincts of survival in men -- and dogs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #794676 in Books
• Published on: 1995-09
• Released on: 1997-09-05
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Abridged, Audiobook, Classical
• Original language: English
• Binding: Audio CD

From Library Journal
London's 1903 classic of a kidnapped dog and Yukon gold is revisited here by editor Dyer, who restored the text to its original form sans the editorial alterations that corrupt most of today's available editions. He also includes numerous photographs and maps as well as notes on the text.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal
Grade 5 Up?These two classics receive fresh and worthy treatment in this new series. Children raised on computer games and frenetic television images may find the writings of Kipling and London to be old-fashioned and unrelated to the worlds they know best. That's why these books are a welcome addition to most collections. Kipling's stories of Mowgli, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, and Toomai of the elephants and London's story of the heroic dog Buck are superbly packaged. The original, unabridged texts are presented along with period maps and photographs, historical etchings and engravings, and newly created full-color illustrations that supply invaluable detail and background. Generous and colorfully presented details about the places, times, people, events, and natural life provide vital context. In The Jungle Book, readers learn about the English colonization of India, the domestication of elephants, purported cases of "wild children" raised by wolves, India's thick-lipped bears, panthers, wolves, mongooses, Bengal tigers, and myriad other details that contribute to fuller and more enjoyable appreciation of Mowgli's adventures in the lush jungle landscape of 19th-century India. Similarly, visual and print information about the Klondike, the Alaskan Gold Rush of 1896, sled dogs, wolves, and Jack London enrich the reading experience of young people first encountering The Call of the Wild. Both books are handsome to look at, inviting to read, and a boon to anyone charged with introducing today's youth to classic works.?Jerry D. Flack, University of Colorado
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From AudioFile
The Durkin Hayes rendition of The Call of the Wild is one of no fewer than 18 audio versions of this work listed in Words on Cassette. The producers wisely chose an accomplished actor, Theodore Bikel, to narrate, and the production clearly benefits from his craftsmanship. But Bikel's speech has an overriding Eastern European accent which, while very appealing, is unsuited to the author's narrative voice. Furthermore, Durkin Hayes has abridged London's tightly constructed novella to fit its two-cassette program. S.K. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine