A companion piece to White Fang, retold for students of English in this English Language Teaching (ELT/ESL) pre-intermediate Macmillan Reader eBook. The Call of the Wild is the story of Buck, who starts life as a domestic dog loyal to the ways of man, who is suddenly stolen, sold to gold prospectors and a world that is entirely foreign to him. In this new - and hard - life, Buck's natural wild dog's instincts are awakened to the call of the wild. American English.