Jack London Naturism

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The author of the story was written by Jack London. What he was doing was describing naturism. After the civil war many people came to California for the gold rush. There was one man who traveled in the woods during the winter. When the man spit it was frozen because the temperature was at 50 degrees below zero. All the man brought with him was his knife, warm clothes, matches, and his dog Pepper. The man always traveled light even without a partner. When the man realized it was to cold to travel he would start a fire with birch bark as his tinder. And when he fell through the ice into the water he didn’t take his boot of so they can dry out. Most people survive by staying together and have patients for the weather to die down. Another reason

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