Before You Begin

Before you begin.

A rock could have seemed more alive than the great wolf-dog lying motionless in the snow — yet every drop of wild blood in his body was racing. That is how we first meet Kazan: caught forever between two worlds.

One quarter wolf, three quarters husky, Kazan is torn between the ancient call of the forest and the unexpected pull of human love. He will be beaten and betrayed, hunted and adored. He will kill, and he will protect. And through it all he must answer a single question that runs like a heartbeat beneath every page: which call will he follow?

Published in 1914, Kazan made James Oliver Curwood one of the most widely read adventure writers of his age. He had hunted and traveled the brutal, beautiful expanse of the Canadian North, and he poured all of it onto the page — the silence of the snow, the cruelty of men, the fierce loyalty of animals. More than a century later, the spell still holds.

Before the story begins, step into Kazan's world. On the pages that follow you will meet the creatures and the people who shape his fate, and the unforgiving land that made them all. Then turn the page, and run with him into the North.