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Understanding The call of the wild : a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents

Author: Claudia Durst Johnson
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Series: '">Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series.
Edition/Format:  Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Jack London's adventure tale The Call of the Wild explores complex relationships between man and nature, and animals' struggle with their own nature in man's world. In this interdisciplinary study, a selection of primary documents point out the many issues that make this story as poignant and pertinent today as when it was written nearly a century ago. Compiled here for the first time is documentation from sources
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Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-
Understanding The call of the wild.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000
(OCoLC)606297116
Online version:
Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-
Understanding The call of the wild.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000
(OCoLC)609152352
Named Person: Jack London; Jack London
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Claudia Durst Johnson
ISBN: 0313308829 9780313308826
OCLC Number: 42420770
Description: xiv, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Literary Analysis: Adventure and Myth 1 --
2. Alaskan Panhandle and the Yukon Territory 25 --
from Fur Seals of Alaska. Hearings before the United States Committee on Ways and Means (1904) 37 --
from The Great Fur Land; or, Sketches of Life in the Hudson's Bay Territory (1879) / H.M. Robinson 38 --
from "The Cremation of Sam McGee," in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses (1907) / Robert W. Service 49 --
3. Yukon Gold Rush 55 --
from The Pioneers of the Klondyke (1897) / M.H.E. Hayne, H. West Taylor 67 --
from "Stream of Gold from Klondyke," San Francisco Call (July 18, 1897) 72 --
from "More Want to Go," Oakland Times (July 30, 1897) 79 --
from San Francisco Call (July 18, 1897) / Steamer Advertisement 81 --
from Advertisement for Equipment in A.E. Ironmonger Sola, Klondyke: Truth and Facts of the New El Dorado (1897) 83 --
from Advertisement for a Guide in A.E. Ironmonger Sola, Klondyke: Truth and Facts of the New El Dorado (1897) 84 --
from Klondike and the Yukon Country (1897) / L.A. Coolidge 85 --
from Klondyke Facts. Being a Complete Guide to the Gold Regions of the Great Canadian Northwest Territories and Alaska (1897) / Joseph Ladue 91 --
from Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-Fields (1898) / William B. Haskell 93 --
from Alaska and the Klondike Gold Fields (1897) / A.C. Harris 96 --
from Through the Yukon Gold Diggings (1900) / Josiah Edward Spurr 98 --
from Klondyke: Truth and Facts of the New El Dorado (1897) / A.E. Ironmonger Sola 101 --
from Klondike and the Yukon Country (1897) / L.A. Coolidge 104 --
from Through the Yukon Gold Diggings (1900) / Josiah Edward Spurr 106 --
from Klondyke Facts (1897) / Joseph Ladue 107 --
from Klondyke: Truth and Facts of the New El Dorado (1897) / A.E. Ironmonger Sola 109 --
from Klondyke Facts (1897) / Joseph Ladue 111 --
from "The Too-Much-Gold River," in Joseph Ladue, Klondyke Facts (1897) / W.D. Lighthall 116 --
from "The Spell of the Yukon" and "The Heart of the Sourdough," in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Versus (1907) / Robert W. Service 118 --
from "There Is a Land," and Anonymous, "This Is the Grave," Carved into Trees on the Way to the Yukon (1897) / Hugh Wells 122 --
4. Sled Dog 127 --
from Dogs and All About Them (1910) / Robert Leighton 147 --
from Anecdotes of Dogs (1878) / Edward Jesse 150 --
from My Dogs in the Northland (1902) / Egerton Young 152 --
from Anecdotes of Dogs (1878) / Edward Jesse 157 --
from My Dogs in the Northland (1902) / Egerton Young 158 --
from Dogs and All About Them (1910) / Robert Leighton 160 --
from The Great Fur Land; or, Sketches of Life in the Hudson's Bay Territory (1879) / H.M. Robinson 162 --
from The New Book of the Dog (1907) / Robert Leighton 166 --
from My Dogs in the Northland (1902) / Egerton Young 168 --
from My Dogs in the Northland (1902) / Egerton Young 170 --
from Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-Fields (1898) / William B. Haskell 173 --
from "Nome Dogs Battle Blizzard," San Francisco Chronicle (Monday, February 2, 1925) 178 --
5. Humans' Relationship with Animals: The Issue of Cruelty 183 --
from The First Book of Moses Called Genesis in the King James Version of the Bible 198 --
from The Great Fur Land; or, Sketches of Life in the Hudson's Bay Territory (1879) / H.M. Robinson 200 --
from A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon (1928) / Arthur Treadwell Walden 204 --
from Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-Fields (1898) / William B. Haskell 206 --
from My Dogs in the Northland (1902) / Egerton Young 210 --
from Black Beauty (1894) / Anna Sewell 213 --
from "Our Mission," PETA Web Site 214 --
6. Wolf: Symbol, Myth, and Issue 219 --
from "Wolves," in The Colonial Laws of Massachusetts (1887) 233 --
from Of Distinguished Animals (1911) / H. Perry Robinson 235 --
from "Letter to Edward A. Garmatz Chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, 1972," in Predatory Mammals and Endangered Species. Hearings before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation (1972) / Nathaniel Reed 237 --
from "Letter to Wolf Defenders," in Predatory Mammals and Endangered Species (1972) / Araby Colton 240 --
from "Statement of Hon. Ron Marlenee, U.S. Representative from Montana," In Endangered Species Act Reauthorization. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment (1987) 242 --
from "Testimony of Frank Dunkle, Director of Fish and Wildlife Service," in Endangered Species Act Reauthorization (1987) 245.
Series Title: Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series.
Responsibility: Claudia Durst Johnson.

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