Never Cry WolfEYE TO EYE WITH DEATH: THE WOLF PROJECT Hordes of bloodthirsty wolves are slaughtering the arctic caribou, and the government's Wildlife Service assigns naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate. Mowat is dropped alone onto the frozen tundra, where he begins his mission to live among the howling wolf packs and study their ways. Contact with his quarry comes quickly, and Mowat discovers not a den of marauding killers but a courageous family of skillful providers and devoted protectors of their young. As Mowat comes closer to the wolf world, he comes to fear with them the onslaught of bounty hunters and government exterminators out to erase the noble wolf community from the Arctic. Never Cry Wolf is one of the brilliant narratives on the myth and magic of wild wolves and man's true place among the creatures of nature. "We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be — the mythologized epitome of a savage, ruthless killer — which is, in reality, no more than the reflected image of ourself." — From the new Preface |
Contents
The Lupine Project | 3 |
Wolf Juice | 17 |
Happy Landings | 28 |
When Is a Wolf Not a Wolf? | 35 |
Contact | 45 |
The Den | 56 |
The Watcher Watched | 68 |
Staking the Land | 78 |
Puppy Time | 140 |
Uncle Albert Falls in Love | 149 |
Morning Meat Delivery | 160 |
Visitors from Hidden Valley | 167 |
Family Life | 177 |
Naked to the Wolves | 187 |
The Worm i the Bud | 198 |
School Days | 209 |
Good Old Uncle Albert | 86 |
Of Mice and Wolves | 99 |
Souris à la Crême | 111 |
Spirit of the Wolf | 121 |
Wolf Talk | 129 |
Scatology | 219 |
To Kill a Wolf | 230 |
The World We Lost | 240 |
Epilogue | 247 |
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