A review by daniel_b_martin
To Build a Fire and Other Stories, by Jack London

5.0

Fantastic collection of London's work. Thoughtful literature which creates a historical perspective of Westward expansion and the types of unique cultural clashing's between Frontiersmen (both real and want-to-be), city slickers, natives, blacks, half bloods. This creates a unique and timeless historical ethnography, but also puts on display the precarious battle between cultural value sets, man, nature, romanticism, the will to survive and the methodology of survival employed by different individuals and cultural groups alike. I would highly recommend this collection if you are into romanticism and historical fiction. London will take you out of your world and into a harsher but simpler time of the not too distant past.