| Title : | The call of the wild : Intermediate Oxford Bookworms Reader | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Jack London, Adapter ; Paul Fisher Johnson, Illustrator | | Publisher: | Oxford : Oxford University Press | | Publication Date: | 2008 | | Pagination: | 72 p. | | Layout: | ill (b & w) | | Size: | 20 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-19-479110-6 | | Class number: | 428.64 | | Abstract: | The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903. When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow ... and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight he never gets up again. | | Contents note: | Oxford Bookworms are retold, abridged and adapted versions of popular classic and contemporary titles, published at a variety of different language levels for all learners of English. This book is for Intermediate level learners. |
The call of the wild : Intermediate Oxford Bookworms Reader [printed text] / Jack London, Adapter ; Paul Fisher Johnson, Illustrator . - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008 . - 72 p. : ill (b & w) ; 20 cm. ISBN : 978-0-19-479110-6 | Class number: | 428.64 | | Abstract: | The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903. When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow ... and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight he never gets up again. | | Contents note: | Oxford Bookworms are retold, abridged and adapted versions of popular classic and contemporary titles, published at a variety of different language levels for all learners of English. This book is for Intermediate level learners. |
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