This listener found this to be one of the best recordings I’ve listened to in a long time I had to be careful while driving and listening because I got caught up in being in one of my favorite places and living the life of a dog. The longer he lives in Alaska, the more in tune with the ancestral ways of his dog ancestors Buck becomes, dreaming of old half clad masters and ‘shades of all manner of dogs, half-wolves and wild wolves’ until he is drawn deep into the wilderness. There is a string of tales from his ‘taming’ to the ways of sled pulling, to the inept trio who are doomed, dog fighting, survival, and finally to meeting John Thornton and their mutual love and understanding for one another. Bernard and part Scotch shepherd is stolen and moves from his happy life as ‘king’ of the Santa Clara ranch where he lives a life of adventure, peril, though also often cruelty, to Alaska. When gold is found in the Klondike, there is a great need for sled dogs. His robust voice, his ability to keep listeners glued, and the fond care with which he reads is spellbinding. And TV, film and stage actor William Roberts’s reading is perfect. Jack London’s deceptively simple direct way of writing combined with one of best dog stories ever, is why this book is such an enduring classic. While Roberts doesn’t use great character range, he lets London’s writing – especially the passages about the mysterious, enchanting call of the wild – ring with its startling beauty. He sounds like a grizzled man who would never display overt emotion but who, nonetheless, can tell a captivating yarn. Roberts has a voice that could have belonged to one of this era’s gold panners. From the peril Buck the sled dog faces in the Arctic to the suffering he endures under brutal masters, listening to his adventure is no tame experience.
In the great tradition of classic animal stories, Jack London’s Call of the Wild, read by William Roberts, is a wrenching story. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer’s stoytelling blaze through every page.Titles by Jack London Titles by Jack London The Call of the Wild (abridged) The Call of the Wild (unabridged) Classic American Short Stories (unabridged) The Sea-Wolf (abridged) White Fang (abridged) Reviews Mesmerizing, heartbreaking, Into the Wild is a tour de force. Krakauer brings McCandless’s uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding-and not an ounce of sentimentality. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. When McCandless’s innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. Admitting an interst that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless’s short life. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away.
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He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented.
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In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. How Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. “Terrifying … Eloquent … A heart-rending drama of human yearning.” - New York Times
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