A hunted dog makes his break for freedom, and the wilderness he enters will either save him or consume him. Dan VI, a champion Irish setter born to luxury, finds himself chained in a railway car bound for somewhere he does not want to go. His desperate escape into the raw forest launches him into a fight for survival where every instinct must be relearned, where hunger is constant, and where the line between wild and tame blurs with each passing day. But fate has not finished shaping his story. In the depths of the wood, Dan encounters a lost boy named Tommy Earle, and something ancient awakens in them both: the recognition of two souls who have been searching without knowing what they seek. Their bond becomes the bridge between Dan's painful past and a future he could not have imagined. Written in 1917, this is animal fiction at its most honest and moving, a story that understands dogs not as loyal accessories to human lives but as beings with their own deep interiority, their own griefs and joys.
