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Hunden Michael er en irsk terrier, der er født og opvokset i den britiske koloni Santa Isabel Island i Salomonøerne i Oceanien. Til at starte med er Michael skibshund, men bruges også til at jage slaver på øerne. En dag glemmer kaptajnen imidlertid Michael på stranden og sejler bort. Nu begynder Michaels eventyr for alvor. Han bliver samlet op af Dag Daughtry, som tager ham med på en verdensomsejling. "Michael" er efterfølger til Jack Londons bog "Jerry" om Michaels bror, der også kommer ud for en masse spændende ting.

Hunden Jerry er en irsk terrier, der vokser op i den britiske koloni Santa Isabel Island. Han bliver egentligt brugt til at jage sorte slaver på plantagerne, men i løbet af bogen kommer han vidt omkring. Vi følger ham på en lang og farlig sejlads, blandt Malaitaøens oprindelige befolkning og hans farefulde møde med troldmanden Agno. Jack London skrev senere en bog om Jerrys bror Michael og hans eventyr rundt om i verden. Bøgerne kan læses hver for sig eller i forlængelse af hinanden.

I "Ulf Larsen" følger vi den amerikanske litteraturkritiker Humphrey van Weyden, der efter et skibsforlis bliver reddet af den garvede og amoralske sømand Ulf Larsen. Jack London blander den psykologiske genre med adventure, som kun han formår at gøre det, og i løbet af bogen kommer vi både ud for forfærdende spænding og ind i Ulf Larsens komplicerede personlighed, der lidt for lidt udfolder sig for van Weyden. Jack London (1876-1916) var en meget produktiv amerikansk forfatter, som skrev hele 49 romaner og noveller.

Da Turgenev a Pirandello, da Maupassant a Jack London, da Anton Checov a Kipling, molti grandi scrittori hanno celebrato gli animali domestici che da più tempo vivono insieme a noi. Intelligenti, curiosi, coraggiosi, fedeli, romantici, ma anche permalosi e pasticcioni, i cani e i gatti sono protagonisti di pagine memorabili. Questa antologia spazia tra i generi più diversi e provoca in chi legge una gamma di emozioni sorprendentemente vasta perché una cosa è certa: i nostri amici a quattro zampe non ci deludono mai tantomeno in letteratura.

Varghunden är en av Jack Londons mest älskade klassiker. I norra Kanadas råa vildmarker kämpar valpen Vittand för att överleva i den bitande kylan. Som korsning mellan hund och varg dras han mellan två inre begär – vargens lockelse till friheten i naturen, och hundens inneboende längtan efter närhet och gemenskap. När Vittand blir bortförd av människor kastas han rakt in i en mardröm. Men bland svårigheterna han tvingas gå igenom, upplever Vittand också glimtar av mänsklig värme. Dessa ögonblick får honom att drömma om ett annat liv, ett liv där han kan leva i harmoni med människorna och deras gåtfulla värld.

Mitt i den amerikanska guldruschen på 1890-talet kidnappas hunden Buck från sitt lugna hem i Kalifornien och säljs som draghund till giriga guldgrävare i Alaskas vildmarker. När Buck kommer till den frusna ödemarken förändras livet radikalt. Alla bekvämligheter han tidigare tagit för givet ersätts med isande kyla och hårt arbete. Men i utmaningarna hittar Buck styrkor han inte visste fanns inom honom. Hans tillvaro som tamt husdjur blir ett minne blott och i stället vaknar hans uråldriga instinkter till liv.

A man travels through the frozen wasteland bordering the Yukon River, accompanied by his best friend - a large husky dog. The dog tries to dissuade the man from walking farther into the frozen land, but the man pushes on. At some point the man decides to stop and build a fire. Unfortunately, snow falls from one of the trees and extinguishes the fire. This is the moment where the problems truly begin.

Sixty years ago, a plague wiped out mankind and only a handful of people managed to survive. The survivors established their own civilization and rules in the wild and destructed world. Now, sixty years later, an old man named James Howard Smith walks together with a young boy through the desert. The two travelers walk along an old and long forgotten railway track with an important mission, a mission that can change the life of all the survivors.

Edith Whittlesey is born in a country district of England, where life flows as per the rule of thumb. She is married to an honest and hardworking miner, who works together with four other men. Usually no unexpected things happen, but one day it all changes. One of the miners bursts into the hut where his partners are sitting together with Edith. The man kills two of them but is stopped and tied up thanks to Whittlesey’s quick reaction.

Buck is a 140-pound dog, a mix of St. Bernard and sheepdog, and lives in Santa Clara Valley with his owner, Judge Miller. However, Buck’s happy and comfortable life comes to an end when he is kidnapped from Miller’s estate and forced to pull sleds in the Klondike region of Canada. The poor dog does not want to obey his new owner and as a result he is beaten and tortured. After Buck arrives in the cold North, he meets another dog named Curly, that is mercilessly killed by a pack of huskies.

"King" Wallace is a lion-tamer, who has been viciously murdered by a man who hated him. Now everyone wants to know who the murderer is. The "Leopard Man" is a leopard trainer with mysterious scars on his arms. He finds out that the murderer attended every performance of the lion-tamer in hope of seeing the lion tear his trainer apart.

"When the World Was Young" introduces us to a thief named Dave Slotter, who intends to steal from James Ward - a famous and wealthy businessman. However, while Slotter walks through Ward’s property, he encounters a wild barbarian and is forced to fight for his life. Will Slotter escape from the wild man who wants to kill him? Who is the barbarian and what is he doing on Ward’s lands? Will the thief succeed in his plan? "Moon-Face" introduces us to John Claverhouse, a man who is unreasonably despised.

जैक लंडन के प्रसिद्ध उपन्यास 'कॉल ऑफ द वाइल्ड ' का सरल हिंदी रूपांतर इस पुस्तक में देखा जा सकता है।

Mit dem üblichen Augenzwinkern und ebensolchen autobiografischen Anklängen schildert Jack London die Erlebnisse des Halbwüchsigen Joe, der sich frustriert aus der Schule davon macht und kurzentschlossen auf See gehen will. Er schließt Freundschaft mit dem fast gleichaltrigen, aber abgeklärten Frisco Kid. Unversehens merken beide, dass sie jeweils von dem träumen, was der Andere hinter sich lassen will. So manchem Klassikerfreund dürfte diese Geschichte in Elementen vertraut sein: In einer jüngeren "Seewolf"-Verfilmung wurden diese Erzählungen als Teil der Jugenderlebnisse von "Van Weyden" und "Larsen" integriert.

The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska.

Azt hiszem, a kutya az egyike az ember legsikeresebb háziasítási kísérleteinek. Amióta szolgálatunkba léptek, a legsokoldalúbb barátaink. Társaságot nyújtanak, mikor erre van szükségünk vigasztalnak. Rendőrkutyaként kiszimatolják a bűnt, és szemévé lesznek azoknak, akik nem látnak. Őrzik tulajdonunkat, százféle módon vigyáznak ránk. Ezek a történetek ékesen bizonyítják, milyen hihetetlenül sokoldalú és elbűvölő állatok.

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876-1916) - and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story details White Fang's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.

"The Terrible Solomons" written by Jack London: There is no gainsaying that the Solomons are a hard-bitten bunch of islands. On the other hand, there are worse places in the world. But to the new chum who has no constitutional understanding of men and life in the rough, the Solomons may indeed prove terrible.

Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from three to five feet above high-water mark. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon was much pearl shell, and from the deck of the schooner, across the slender ring of the atoll, the divers could be seen at work.