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Title: OF WOLVES AND MEN by Barry Lopez ISBN: 0-684-16322-5 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 September, 1979 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A good start!
Comment: As long as this book is read by someone with a logical mind who can find the errors and generalizations made by Lopez, this is an excellent book. It has few tendenies to generalize, though it does make the wolf out to be something of a magical creature with super powers in some points. It is a rare thing to find a good thick book of the behavior and ways of wolves (and men) so it would be unwise for the well-educated curious person to miss this.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the finest nature books of the past thirty years
Comment: The greatest virtue of this book is that it makes you care. Some of the great wolf books presume already that you have an interest in the subject, like Mech's, as fine and as informative and as authoritative as it is, won't necessarily create a sense of awe like Lopez's. But through a judicious use of scientific and mythological materials, fused together with a marvelous literary sense, Lopez creates an epic retelling of the wolf in North America.
Since reading this book for the first time, a host of sections have remained vivid to me. For instance, a schoolroom that is to be visited by a wolf and its handler. The children are asked to make a drawing of a wolf beforehand, and most create a beast with huge and menacing teeth. After the visit, they are told once again to draw a wolf, and this time draw a dog-like animal with enormous paws. No other section of the book emphasized to me how dreadfully we misconceive wolves. Lopez meanders over the course of Western civilization harvesting tales and stories--both scientific and mythic--recounting the myriad ways we have thought about wolves. Few of our imaginings do their fine qualities justice, and most often we demonize them. As a result, the wolf as we know it is largely a creation of our fevered imaginations. Lopez tries to break through the fictions about wolves to focus more on their truer qualities and natures. The heartbreaking pages that end the book bring to mind the great tragedy it was for the North American wolf for Europeans to have discovered America.
One might have to cut the book a tiny bit of slack because of the graphics. The pictures are judiciously chosen, and while graphics methods have improved dramatically in the past twenty years due to computer technology, and the book the drawings are superb, the photos good if a tiny bit blurry given their age, and the illustrations highly informative. I especially love the reproduction of the print of a three-year-old Alaskan timber wolf. I used to take the paw of my German Shepherd Birgit and place it over the print, and was astonished at how huge the wolf print was in comparison.
This is a truly enjoyable and informative book, one that will enrich and alter the way one looks at nature. Certainly, I now never go to a zoo without a great deal of awe and regret when passing a wolf.
Rating: 5
Summary: OF WOLVES AND MEN: As reviewed by Ace
Comment: Barry Lopez has certainly captured the very essence of the beautious creature, the wolf. As a great wolf enthusiast, I was extremely astonished at the extensive study and accurate information which Lopez has portrayed within this book. I recommend this written masterpiece to all wolf researchers, enthusiasts, or even animal lovers.
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Title: Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez ISBN: 0375727485 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Wolf: The Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species by L. David Mech, Ian McTaggart ISBN: 0816610266 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: July, 1985 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Wolf Almanac by Robert H. Busch ISBN: 1558215573 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: About This Life : Journeys on the Threshold of Memory by Barry Lopez ISBN: 0679754474 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Crossing Open Ground by Barry Lopez ISBN: 0679721835 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 May, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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