Wolves [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: June 13, 1991

Ninety-seven color images by outstanding wildlife photographers and a thoroughly researched, illuminating text explore the history, life cycle, and true nature of wolves worldwide.

Author Candace Savage traces the global history of wolves and then focuses specifically on the North American wolf, exploring the mythology and negative stereotypes of wolves, as well as equally erroneous "Disneyfied" images. Describing their true behaviors, she tells us why wolves have become symbols of vitality and wilderness and alerts us to the perils they face in North America.

The extraordinary gallery of images - by such outstanding North American wildlife photographers as Art Wolfe, Jim Brandenburg, Peter J. McLeod, Rolf O. Peterson, Erwin and Peggy Bauer, and Karen Hollet - includes dramatic shots of wolves hunting musk oxen and deer, interacting within the hierarchy of the pack, and rearing their young.

With extraordinary photographs and an authoritative text, Wolves captures the wildness and grace of these magnificent creatures.

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About the Author

Candace Savage is the author of numerous highly acclaimed books of natural history, including Bird Brains, Wild Cats, and Eagles of North America. She lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Product Details

• Paperback: 159 pages
• Publisher: Voyageur Press (June 13, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 087156632X
• ISBN-13: 978-0871566324
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 8.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,672,851 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excelent book about wolves and their lives, September 6, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Wolves (Paperback)

This book is an excelent source of knowledge and pictures of wolves. Covers Myths, nature of, and wolves everyday life. Book is FULL if excelent pictures.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond the Myth..., June 26, 2002

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Zinta Aistars "Writer & Editor" (Portage, MI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wolves (Paperback)

Few creatures have been so misunderstood, so shrouded in myth... and such inaccurate myth... as canis lupus, the wolf. Wild and beautiful, in my mind the most beautiful of all creatures still walking our earth today (although in painfully diminishing and harrassed numbers), the wolf inspires fear in many. But then, ignorance often inspires fear. We need books such as this one - with text and photographic selection by Candace Savage, foreword by L. David Mech - to banish such ignorance and reveal to us something of this wild and wonderful animal. For not only is he beautiful, but he is also highly intelligent, and, yes, highly "civilized" in his ways.

Henry Thoreau, author of another of my favorite books, "Walden", said: "In wildness is the preservation of the world." I believe this with all the healthy wildness in my heart. On a journey some years ago to Alaska, I brought along little luggage, but many books... and many of these were about wolves. I realized how little I knew about this incredible animal. Like so many, I knew more the myth reaching back to my own childhood... the nasty child-eating beast of Red Riding Hood, the ravaging monster harrassing three little pigs.... and, later, Jack London's Call of the Wild. I saw movies that portrayed the wolf as a fearsome monster who freely stalked and killed human beings. I visited museums where the taxidermist had so positioned the wolf as to fully expose bloodied fangs in a nightmarish snarl, dear little bunnies lying gutted in the red snow before him. The wolf kills, as all animals must to survive and eat and feed their young, but the more I read and researched this animal, the more I was impressed with his intelligence and integrity. The first myth to go was the one that wolves will hunt down and attack a human being. That is simply false. They are intelligent enough to avoid if at all possible every encounter with man, but will defend themselves and their young with respectable ferocity. Rarely have I known of any species that has such a strong sense of family as does the wolf. If only we cared and nurtured our young as does a pack of wolves... Faithful for life to his mate, the wolf not only provides nourishment for his young, but fosters a sense of family that we can only envy in our society of broken families and latch-key children.

This book provides not only fascinating information about wolves, but is filled with a breathtaking selection of photography that allows the reader a glimpse into the lives of these magnificent animals. I would follow this book up with an evening in a log cabin, fireplace roaring, wolves on the snowy horizon singing, with my favorite movie, "Never Cry Wolf," based on Farley Mowfat's book by the same name.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reckless and Free, January 9, 2004

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Wolves (Paperback)

Wolves are a species that have been feared for centuries, perhaps because they are reckless and free, like lightning in a storm. Their history has been written down in an immensely enjoyable book called wolves by Candace Savage. In the book, Savage suggests many plausable reasons why man has always feared the wolf, reveals the routine habits of wolves, and tell the general lifestyle of a pack of wolves. Additionally, dozens of amazinly close-up photos of wolves in their natural habitat help support what Savage is saying.