Publicada per primera vegada l’any 1903, La crida del bosc continua sent avui un dels clàssics del gènere d’aventura de capçalera. El gos Buck, que ha nascut en una casa benestant i hi viu tranquil i mandrós, es veu pres per la força i endut cap al gran nord, on l'or, tot just descobert, exigeix gossos forts i intel·ligents com ell, capaços d'arrossegar els trineus. Comencen així una colla de dramàtiques aventures on els gossos i els homes uneixen llurs destins. Progressivament, Buck sentirà néixer en ell l'instint que el crida cap al bosc, cap als llops, cap als seus germans salvatges.
John Griffith Chaney, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ rights and socialism. London wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam.
His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen".
TOP em flipa aquest llibre, m'agrada molt la idea dels deserts glacials del canada/alaska, la duresa d'aquestos, les dinamiques de poder entre els gossos, el fet que Buck sigui el goat en tot el que fa, la cruesa de les descripcions de les lluites, caceres etc...