The Call of the Wild: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Call of the Wild, credited to Jack London, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Call of the Wild, by Jack London. Read by Mark F. Smith. Buck is living a happy life in California until he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must toughen up and learn the harsher rules of survival in the North. One of the first of these is how to deal with being harnessed in the same team as a dog that wants to kill him. Large, strong and smart, Buck toughens to his new life. But even the toughest dog can be worn down by constant work, and after 3,000 miles of pulling sleds, Buck nears the end of his rope. Cast away as no longer useful, Buck is acquired by greenhorns whose inexperience nearly kills him, but after being saved by John Thornton, he at last finds a man he can love. Then on a remote gold-hunting expedition, Buck hears a call emanating from the woods and speaking to the wild heart of his distant ancestors. The lure of it almost balances the great love he bears for Thornton, but events take him away from his old life... and into legend. (summary by Mark F. Smith)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Call of the Wild
• Author credits: Jack London
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 7
• Listed recording duration: 3:24:17

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• animals
• fiction
• nature

Track guide

1. 01 - Into the Primitive — 24:00
2. 02 - The Law of Club and Fang — 21:11
3. 03 - The Dominant Primordial Beast — 33:10
4. 04 - Who Has Won to Mastership — 20:29
5. 05 - The Toil of Trace and Trail — 35:06
6. 06 - For the Love of a Man — 30:37
7. 07 - The Sounding of the Call — 39:47

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