These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost. - P9
Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow mental, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. - P9
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. - P9
Chapter I. Into the Primitive "Old longings nomadic leap, Chaping at custom‘s chain;Again from its brumal sleepWakens the ferine strain." - P9
■ 저자 소개 잭 런던(Jack London,1876년 1월 12일 ~ 1916년 11월 22일)은 미국의 소설가이자 사회평론가입니다. 샌프란시스코에서 가난하게 출생해서 신문팔이나 선원일을 전전했습니다. 1901년에는 사회당에 입당했습니다. 사회당 시절 잭 런던은 다윈, 스펜서, 마르크스, 니체의 책들을 애독했습니다. 자연주의 문학을 뫈셩했다고 평가받고 있습니다. - P3