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'It was true, there were other dogs. There could not but be
other dogs on so vast a place, but they did not count.'

Buck, the magnificent offspring of a St Bernard and Scotch
shepherd dog, lives contentedly on a California estate until
he is stolen and shipped northwards to be trained as a sledge
dog. Uprooted from the civilized world, he is thrown into the
cruel and savage struggle of the Klondike gold rush. The
story of his heroic adventures and his response to the 'call
of the wild' has not only excited readers but also struck
a deeped, mythic chord.

Of all Jack London's fictions none has been so popular as his
dog stories. This book contains a collection of some of his
classic dog stories, displaying his natural ability to see the
world through the eyes of a dog. It includes his 'classic' -
The Call of the Wild.

The Farseer Trilogy follows the life of FitzChivalry
Farseer (Fitz), a trained assassin, in a kingdom called The Six
Duchies while his uncle, Prince Verity, attempts to wage war on
the Red-Ship Raiders from The OutIslands who are attacking
the shores of the kingdom by turning the people of the Six
Duchies into forged ones; still alive, but without any emotion,
memory or soul." - Wikipedia

"Fitz processes an ability called "The Wit", an ancient and
distrusted magic which allows him to bond telepathically with
animals." - Wikipedia

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'A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live
and which shall die...'. Darwin's theory of natural selection issued
a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no being or
species has been specifically created; all are locked into a pitiless
struggle for existence, with extinction looming for those not fitted
for the task. Yet The Origin of Species (1859) is also a humane
and inspirational vision of ecological interralatedness, revealing
the complex mutual interdependencies between animal and plant
life, climate and physical environment, and - by implication -
within the human world.

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