Jack London

Alfred Kazin has aptly remarked that "the greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived." Newsboy, factory "work beast," gang member, hobo, sailor, Klondike argonaut, socialist crusader, war correspondent, utopian farmer, and world-famous adventurer: London is the closest thing America has had to a literary folk hero. His writing itself is concerned with nothing less than the largest questions and the grandest themes: What does it mean...

"Jack Thornton is an adventurer who travels the Yukon in search of gold. Whe he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog with the strenght of his part-wolf ancestry, Jack's luck changes. A winning $1,000 bet on Buck's stamina is only the first of the rewards that his friendship with the canine will bring. When the pair, along with Jack's friend Shorty, happen upon a woman who's lost her husband in the wild they begin their greatest adventure yet in this rousing...

Buck is a big (and big-hearted) dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team, and later its leader, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.

After the death of his mother, a young boy is sent to live with his father in Canada, where his father is involved in a deadly gold scandal. In an attempt to obtain the map of the mine, thieves kidnap the boy and take him deep into the snowy forest. White Fang is the only one who can save the boy from the dangers that await him.

Part wolf, part dog, White Fang is an orphan cub in the frozen frontier of the Yukon, exploited and abused by men until one man teaches the animal to recognize his own greatest tribute -- his loyalty.

White Fang the television series is an adaptation of Jack London's similarly titled novel. These are the tales of a teenage boy, Matt Scott, who is devoted to his loyal canine companion, White Fang, and the adventures they share in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains.