CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
I: CANIS LUPUS LINNAEUS
1. Origin and Description
2. Social Structure and Communication
3. Hunting and Territory
II: AND A CLOUD PASSES OVERHEAD
4. Amaguk and Sacred Meat
5. A Wolf in the Heart
6. Wolf Warriors
III: THE BEAST OF WASTE AND DESOLATION
7. The Clamor of Justification
8. Wolfing for Sport
9. An American Pogrom
IV: AND A WOLF SHALL DEVOUR THE SUN
10. Out of a Medieval Mind
11. The Reach of Science
12. Searching for the Beast
13. Images from a Childhood
14. A Howling at Twilight
EPILOGUE: On the Raising of Wolves and a New Ethology
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Barry Lopez (1945–2020) was the author of three
collections of essays, including Horizon; several story
collections; Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National
Book Award; Of Wolves and Men, a National Book Award finalist;
and Crow and Weasel, a novella-length fable. He
contributed regularly to both American and foreign journals and
traveled to more than seventy countries to conduct
research. He was the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim,
Lannan, and National Science Foundations and was honored by a
number of institutions for his literary, humanitarian, and
environmental work.
Nate Blakeslee is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly in
Austin. He is the author of the New York Times
bestseller American Wolf.
"Haunting . . . has something of value to say to all of us." —The
Boston Globe
"A wealth of observation, mythology and mysticism . . . that adds a
colorful part to the still-unfinished mosaic that defines the
wolf." —The New York Times Book Review
"Biologically absorbing and humanly rich . . . should be read by
every ecologically concerned American." —John Fowle
"Not only the best popular account of an animal I have read in a
long time but also something new—a bridge between books of the past
and those of the future, which, it is hoped, will incorporate and
expand the perceptions so eloquently treated here." —George
Schaller
"[Lopez’s] patient effort to understand a despised, feared, and
heavily mythologized beast induces a shiver of strangeness, the
sign of fresh, original work." —Newsweek
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