The Call of the Wild and White Fang - Jack London [148]
Labor, Earle, and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Jack London. 1974. Revised edition: New York and Toronto: Twayne Publishers and Maxwell Macmillan, 1994. Critical collection by London scholars.
Works Cited in the Introduction
Auerbach, Jonathan. Male Call: Becoming Jack London. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. Excellent discussion of London’s invention of a “trademark self” through the act of writing.
a
Term for a French coin, the rough equivalent of a penny in U.S. currency.
b
Stupid person.
c
Depart quickly.
d
Small, hardy horses descended from the wild horses of the Pacific Northwest.
e
In a dog team, the wheeler, or wheel dog, is harnessed nearest to the sleigh.
f
Pole used to direct the sled to turn to the right, or away from the driver, who walks on the left side.
g
Sleeping car; “travelling on a Pullman” was a relative luxury.
h
Quod erat demonstrandum, meaning “which was to be demonstrated or proved” (Latin).
i
Also called miner’s court; a makeshift court that miners set up to dispense justice in frontier areas.
j
trope made from the fiber of a plant grown in the Philippines.
k
To bring a boat to a sudden halt by throwing a rope around a post or tree.
l
The channel through which water runs to a mill wheel.
m
Clusters of dark-colored vegetation found in the Arctic.
n
Fictionalized trading post.
o
Card game in which players use a pegged board to keep track of their points.
p
Bitter alkaloid salt derived from the bark of the cinchona tree and often used in medicines.
q
Agent stationed at the post of a trading company who is responsible for that company’s goods and monies.
r
Runnerless sled; the original pack sled of Canadian tribal peoples and French fur traders.
s
Colloquial name for newly arrived miners.
t
Canada’s Northwest Territory.
u
Dealer of a card game in which the players bet against the dealer on the order in which the cards will run when taken from the pack.
v
Porch at the door of a building that shelters a person entering or leaving a carriage.