Krupp Library: eBooks and Digital Audiobooks: Book Group April 23, The Call of the Wild

Call of the Wild by Jack London

Portrait of Jack London taken in 1903.

Image from Little Pilgrimages Among the Men Who Have Written Famous Books: second series by E.F. Harkins, published by L C Page and Company Boston 1903 - https://archive.org/details/littlepilgrimage00harkuoft (Little Pilgrimages page 235).

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Jack London Historic Park

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Context for The Call of the Wild

By Cantwell, George G. - Library University Washington; first published in 1900, "The Klondike, a souvenir", Rufus Bucks Publisher, Seattle, 1900 (no page numbers). Digitally altered image to remove caption at lower left (see uploaded version for original)., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17281180

Biography of Jack London

Klondike routes map. The section connecting Dyea/Skagway with Dawson is referred to by London as the "Yukon Trail".

Klondike Routes Map from w:National Park Service; cropped from: http://www.nps.gov/klgo/planyourvisit/upload/KlondikeRoutes.pdf (http://www.nps.gov/klgo/planyourvisit/maps.htm)