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The Best Wolf Books Ever Written
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Brother Wolf
by Jim Brandenburg
In this breathtaking photographic journey, world famous National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg takes us on a tour of the land surrounding his cabin home in the woods of Northern Minnesota.
The images alone in this masterpiece are worth ten times the price of the book. Every image captures wolves, eagles, lynx, pine martins, deer, ravens, and other wildlife and leave you spellbound and memorized. Most of the photographs are breathtaking, some are haunting, and all are worthy of being cut out and framed.
If you consider yourself a lover of wolves, this book is an absolute must-own.
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White Wolf
by Jim Brandenburg
Jim Brandenburg leaves the comfort and wilds of his woods in Northern Minnesota and heads for the open and frozen tundra of Ellesmere Island.
As close to the north pole as you can go and still be on land, Brandenburg and wolf biologist David Mech together study and photograph wolves in a setting where human contact is rare and they have therefore not developed a fear of man.
In true Brandenburg fashion, each photograph is a work of art, and the text will give the reader a new wealth of knowledge about wolf behavior and habits in a setting that is truly wild.
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Chased By The Light
by Jim Brandenburg
Brandenburg once again uses the hidden world of his beloved northern woods as the setting for a daunting artistic challenge. From June 21st to September 21st, each day was spent capturing the spirit of the Northern Minnesota wilderness through his digital camera. At the end of each day, he picked the best shot to represent that day's adventure.
The resulting book teems with life. It is filled with the color and action of a pristine natural world during its most energetic season of the year. It features all of Brandenburg's favorite subjects, including the wildlife for which he is famous.
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Living With Wolves
by Jim Dutcher
Man has unfairly demonized wolves for centuries. More than two million have been exterminated by humans due to misconceptions about the wolf being a destructive, ruthless, random predator. The Dutchers eloquently dispel these myths.
The authors' photographs and experiences living among a pack of wolves brings readers face-to-face with them to reveal an intelligent, social, family-oriented animal deserving of respect, admiration, and protection. Living with Wolves celebrates the wolves' fascinating lives--what makes a wolf howl, travel in packs, and relegate one member to the lowly "omega" position? How are they different from the family dog?
The Dutchers call for preserving wild places with contiguous wildlife corridors that allow for a sustainable ecosystem for wolves, and one that would preclude the clashes with ranchers and encroaching civilization that are threatening the wolf with rapid extinction.
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Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation
by David Mech
World famous wolf biologist David Mech lays out a virtual treasure trove of knowledge about the world in which wolves live.
Taking a scientific approach, Mech educates us about wolf habits but also opens our minds to human / wolf interaction and to the delicate balance we must find to maintain a world where both can live in harmony.
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Yellowstone Wolves in the Wild
by James C. Halfpenny
Spectacular color photos of Yellowstone National Park's wild wolves plus eye-witness stories from park scientists and "wolf watchers." An unprecendented portrait of individual wolves and wolf packs and astonishing new information about how wolves are changing the park's very nature. This book sets a new standard for wolf photography and natural history.
Dr. James Halfpenny has done a marvelous job of telling the story of the Yellowstone wolves, using photos of the actual animals (no photos of captive wolves, a first for a book of this kind!). He marvelously interweaves biology and research topics with first-hand accounts and stories from the park staff, visitors and volunteers to give a rich account of what the Yellowstone Wolf Project has taught us about this magnificent animal.
The book contains a wealth of information on the wolves, including their reintroduction, the history of the packs, their behavior, and their impact on the entire ecosystem. Plenty of reference material at the end including ID charts and maps round out the factual data. Filled with personal accounts, gorgeous photos and fascinating stories, this book is a must for anyone interested in the most successful endangered species restoration project of the century.
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The Company of Wolves
by Peter Steinhart
People either hate wolves or love them.
To many, wolves have come to represent the last remnants of wildness; to others, wolves are a metaphor for the deeper aspects of the human animal. This is not a treatise on wolf biology but an examination of the relationship between humans and wolves in the wolves' last refuges in the Arctic and in places where the two species live together again as wolves move into new areas, either through their own natural movements or through attempts at reintroduction.
Steinhart, the author of several books (e.g., Tracks in the Sky, Random, 1991) and many popular articles on the environment, speaks with wolf biologists, wildlife managers, trappers, ranchers, Native Americans, and others. Though it is clear where Steinhart's sympathies lie, the book is balanced between the wolves' advocates and their opponents. Highly recommended for general collections.
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Ordinary Wolves
by Seth Kantner
First time author Seth Kantner tells the powerful and touching story of Cutuk, the white boy raised by his father in a sod igloo among the Eskimos in Alaska.
Cutuk learns at a tender young age how to survive in such an unforgiving land: hunt responsibly, take care of your dog team, respect mother nature, trust your family, rever your elders, and learn from your mistakes.
Although wolves are not the main subject of this book, they are always lurking just under the horizon. Wolves are plentiful in the land around Cutuk's igloo, his encounters with them are frequent, and at an early age he learns to respect their wisdom and skills.
This haunting tale of the raw wilderness, the often disturbing life of native villages, and of little boy who wants desperately to fit in and be accepted will leave you changed and moved.
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Never Cry Wolf
by Farley Mowat
Hordes of bloodthirsty wolves are slaughtering the arctic caribou, and the government's Wildlife Service assigns naturalist Farely 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 waves.
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 on 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 magical world 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 mythological epitome of a savage, ruthless killer -- which is, in reality, no more than the reflected image of ourself."
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DVD: Never Cry Wolf
adopted from the novel by Farley Mowat
In this timeless adaptation of Farley Mowat's autobiographical novel turns his life-changing
experience studying the wolves in Canada's inhospitable North into a moving drama of one man's
courage and discovery of nature's majesty. Charles Martin Smith plays green biologist Tyler,
sent by the Canadian government to "prove" that the wolves are depleting the caribou herds,
but what he finds is a natural world in perfect harmony where he becomes a tolerated outsider.
Dumped unprepared in the wilds by a hard drinking bush pilot (Brian Dennehy), Tyler learns survival
skills from the aged Eskimo who saves his life and the rules of coexistence from a neighboring wolf
(which results in a literal pissing contest as man and beast mark their respective territories).
Tyler's journey culminates in the majestic run with the wolf pack, an exhilarating sequence where
for an instant he becomes one with natural environment of the wilds.
For all its beauty, however,
Tyler's experience becomes a bittersweet lesson as the encroachment of hunters, tourism, and the
social landscape threaten the natural order. As in his previous film, the delicate and lovely
The Black Stallion, Ballard's astounding visual treatment captures the awesome natural beauty of the
Canadian wilderness with power and poignancy.
Kevin Costner's Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves explores
many of the themes presented in this film, but without the resonance or beauty of Ballard's unsung
masterpiece.
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DVD: Wolves at Our Door
Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Not Jim and Jamie Dutcher.
Raising a pack of gray wolves from puppies, they were able to film their growth, development, and
changing behavior. Wolves at Our Door, the sequel to Wolf: Return of a Legend, explores these beautiful
animals as they live in America's Northwest. Excellent footage captures the wolves playing with each
other and with the Dutchers and allows us a glimpse into another world, one that's not so scary after all.
You're sure to see these marvelous beasts differently after watching Wolves at Our Door.
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VHS: National Geographic: White Wolf
This breathtaking video of arctic wolves in the Canadian Tundra of Ellesmere Island details the discoveries of photographer Jim Brandenburg and wolf biologist David Mech.
In classic National Geographic fashion, the visual impact is shattering and the educational value is worth ten times the price of the video.
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VHS: National Geographic: White Wolf
This emotional and stunning video documents the return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park. Hosted by Doug Smith, head of the reintroduction project, we participate as he monitors and observes the Druid Peak pack. There is wonderful footage of hunts, kills, pack interaction, puppies, and more.
As one would expect from National Geographic fashion, the visual quality of the video is breathtaking and the educational value is priceless.
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Book: Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North America
by James C. Halfpenny
Animal tracks in the snow of the mountain forest, in the mud along a streambank, or in the sand of the desert are much more than footprints. James Halfpenny’s Field Guide will allow the nature lover to satisfy his or her curiosity by identifying the animal that left the prints. But identification is only the beginning of a fascinating activity: interpretation is the rewarding goal of this book. With it anyone can be a nature detective, able to reconstruct the behavior of mammals from mice to moose. Tracks tell stories and the user of this book can read them.
Based on field research, much of it the author’s own, the book brings the amateur naturalist the latest information on animal gaits and the interpretation of scat.
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