This has been a pet project for the past couple of years.  I would start a few chapters, get distracted, then come back to it a few weeks later only to decide to start it from the beginning.  This was the process for the past few years.  Finally, in November of 2009, I decide that I was going to get it done before the holidays. 

In a way, I'm glad it took as long as it did.  Each time I went through a chapter, I was discovering more complexity in what Jack London was getting at.  It was beneficial to know that he was a Darwinist.  He would occasionally depart from a narrative describing, for example, Buck sitting by a campfire and drift into the dog's instinctive survival skills surfacing . . . skills that were part of his heredity and breeding.  Adjusting the narration to fit the point of view took a while to get a handle on. 

It seemed that there were three points of view.  There was the matter of fact third person doing descriptive narration of the action.  There was also the contemplative narrative that would detail the raw emotions and survival skills being rediscovered, and then there was Buck's perspective. 

It was finish December 15th, 2009, so I made it in time for the holidays.  If you decide to pick up a copy, I certainly hope you enjoy it.