The Call of the Wild and White Fang

by London, Jack; McKowen, Scott

• ISBN13: 9781402714559
• ISBN10: 1402714556
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Sterling

Summary

The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations. Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium which evokes the look of popular art from the period of these stories. Scratchboard is an illustration board with a specifically prepared surface of hard white chalk. A thin layer of black ink is rolled over the surface, and lines are drawn by hand with a sharp knife by scraping through the ink layer to expose the white surface underneath. The finished drawings are then scanned and the color is added digitally. Two of Jack London's best-loved masterpieces, in their entirety. Call of the Wild tells a compelling tale of adventure during the Yukon Gold Rush, and fully captures the unquenchable spirit of Buck, a kidnapped dog trying to survive in the harshest of environments. Also set in Alaska, the powerful White Fang follows the often savage life of the magnificent title character, a mix of wolf and dog.

Table of Contents

The Call of the Wild
1. Into the Primitive	3	(10)
2. The Law of Club and Fang	13	(9)
3. The Dominant Primordial Beast	22	(13)
4. Who Has Won to Mastership	35	(9)
5. The Toil of Trace and Trail	44	(14)
6. For the Love of a Man	58	(13)
7. The Sounding of the Call	71	(20)
White Fang
Part One The Wild
1. the Trail of the Meat	91	(8)
2. The She-Wolf	99	(10)
3. The Hunger Cry	109	(12)
Part Two Born of the Wild
1. The Battle of the Fangs	121	(9)
2. The Lair	130	(8)
3. The Gray Cub	138	(5)
4. The Wall of the World	143	(10)
5. The Law of Meat	153	(8)
Part Three The Gods of the Wild
1. The Makers of Fire	161	(10)
2. The Bondage	171	(8)
3. The Outcast	179	(5)
4. The Trail of the Gods	184	(5)
5. The Covenant	189	(8)
6. The Famine	197	(10)
Part Four The Superior Gods
1. The Enemy of His Kind	207	(9)
2. The Mad God	216	(8)
3. The Reign of Hate	224	(5)
4. The Clinging Death	229	(11)
5. The Indomitable	240	(6)
6. The Love-Master	246	(15)
Part Five The Tame
1. The Long Trail	261	(5)
2. The Southland	266	(7)
3. The God's Domain	273	(10)
4. The Call of Kind	283	(6)
5. The Sleeping Wolf	289	(10)
Questions, Questions, Questions by Arthur Pober, Ed.D	299	(4)
About the Author, About the Illustrator	303