NORTHLAND in Classic Quotes

1  This first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment.

The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang

2  His transient masters since he had come into the Northland had bred in him a fear that no master could be permanent.

The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man

3  Dying men had sworn to it, and to the mine the site of which it marked, clinching their testimony with nuggets that were unlike any known grade of gold in the Northland.

The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call

4  Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland.

The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter I. Into the Primitive

5  But in spite of this great love he bore John Thornton, which seemed to bespeak the soft civilizing influence, the strain of the primitive, which the Northland had aroused in him, remained alive and active.

The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man

6  It was all well enough in the Southland, under the law of love and fellowship, to respect private property and personal feelings; but in the Northland, under the law of club and fang, whoso took such things into account was a fool, and in so far as he observed them he would fail to prosper.

The Call of the Wild By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang