Before his sudden death at age 40 in 1916, Jack London lived ... celebrated author of The Call of the Wild, is a saga as adventurous as the yarns he spun. By 1916, London was the highest-paid ...

Jack London once said that he would "rather be ashes ... particularly the biophysics of blood clotting But he, like London, has heard the call of the wild. And it's taken him places miles from power ...