Jack London, the world-famous author of The Call of the Wild, is one of the great American literary figures. As the USA was ending the Conquest of the West to enter modern times, he was a link between those two different worlds. His early life was one of hardship and adventure in the late 1800's.

The years of Jack London's success as a writer are no less full of travel and adventure than his early years. He remarries, travels the world in a yacht and spends a year in the South Pacific, all the while writing in his inimitable style.