What am I reading?

Jack London's The Call of the Wild. I found it on library shelf and borrowed it. I had never heard of the book earlier. However the subject of the book - Klondike gold rush of late nineteenth century, interested me. I had never heard of Klondike gold rush before my trip to Alaska last year. It was in Skagway that I heard about it as our tour guide explained us some of the astonishing and horrifying facts of the period. The Call of the Wild is about the savagery that humans have often subjected animals to and the shame thereof. Yet the story is told in an amusing way that keeps it light and humourous.