
Wolves and Their Wilderness: A Comprehensive Collection of 10 Books
Ten Classic Accounts of North American Wolves, Wilderness, Ecology, and ConservationBy Patrick Casey, Terence Casey, Frank Mayer, Jackson Gregory, Robert R. Ream, P. D. Karns, John W. Winship, L. David Mech, Louis Daniel Frenzel, A. R. Harding, Richard A. Hook, William Laughlin Robinson, Thomas F. Weise, Olaf Baker, Robert Morris Peck, Stanley Paul YoungLength58h 21m
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Wolves and Their Wilderness gathers ten book-length perspectives on the wolf as animal, adversary, emblem, and inhabitant of contested landscapes. Ranging from natural history and field observation to hunting lore, trapping manuals, frontier narrative, and wilderness writing, the collection preserves a strikingly varied record of human engagement with Canis lupus. Its most compelling passages juxtapose close attention to tracks, behavior, and habitat with dramatic accounts of pursuit and survival, revealing both the acuity and the limitations of earlier wildlife literature. The contributors—among them naturalists, outdoor journalists, sportsmen, trappers, and regional chroniclers—write from traditions shaped by North American expansion, resource use, and the gradual professionalization of wildlife study. Their collective work belongs to a literary culture in which wilderness was simultaneously a working environment, a sporting ground, and an object of scientific inquiry. Read together, these voices illuminate changing attitudes toward predators: fear and admiration, eradication and conservation, practical knowledge and ecological curiosity coexist throughout the volume. This anthology is especially rewarding for readers of environmental history, animal studies, and outdoor literature. It offers an unusual opportunity to compare genres and assumptions within one capacious volume, while tracing the dialogue between lived experience and evolving ideas about wild nature. Students and general readers alike will find rich material for examining how wolves have shaped—and been shaped by—human stories of wilderness.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, Literary Classics
Length58 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Wolf Cub
26CHAPTER I
2The Wolf Cub
27CHAPTER IV
3"It is my officer, my parent!" whispered the young policeman
28CHAPTER VI
4CHAPTER VI
29CHAPTER IX
5CHAPTER XI
30CHAPTER XI
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6CHAPTER XVI
31CHAPTER XIV
7CHAPTER XXI
32CHAPTER XVII
8CHAPTER XXVI
33CHAPTER XXI
9CHAPTER XXXIII
34CHAPTER XXIV
10CHAPTER XXXVIII
35The Song of the Wolf
11Dusty Star
36The Song of the Wolf
12Dusty Star
37CHAPTER I
13PART I
38CHAPTER V
14CHAPTER V
39CHAPTER VIII
15PART II
40CHAPTER XI
16CHAPTER XVI
41CHAPTER XIII
17CHAPTER XX
42CHAPTER XVI
18CHAPTER XXVI
43CHAPTER XIX
19Shasta of the Wolves
44CHAPTER XXII
20Shasta of the Wolves
45The Wolf Hunters
21CHAPTER I THE WOLF-CHILD
46CHAPTER I TOM'S PLAN
22CHAPTER VII SHASTA JOINS THE WOLF PACK
47CHAPTER II WE GET OUR DISCHARGES
23CHAPTER XIII THE BULL MOOSE
48CHAPTER III WE FIND AN OUTFIT
24CHAPTER XVIII THE WOLVES AVENGE
49CHAPTER IV BACK TO THE BUFFALO RANGE
25Timber-Wolf
50CHAPTER V WE MEET DOUBTFUL CHARACTERS