One of Jack London’s brightest, most captivating novels. Before the reader unfolds the story of Elam Harnish—“the golden king” of Alaska, a real man in the full sense of the word, someone who is not afraid of hardships, adventures, or mortal danger.
However, the hardest test for Elam becomes not snowstorms, not fights with enemies, and not the horror of the White Silence of the northern lands—but the stone jungles of New York’s high society, where there is nothing human. Everything is sold there—friendship and love, honor and decency—and you have to strain all your strength not to turn into the same predator as all the people around you…