![]() ![]() “The fight… Yellowstone’s wolves is embodied in O-Six’s story, told with great immediacy and empathy in a tale that reads like fiction. “Beautiful, detailed… centers on the rise, reign, and family life of O-Six, matriarch of the Lamar Canyon pack and so well-known to park visitors that the New York Times gave her an obituary.” A tight, dense narrative, American Wolf races along like a predator on the hunt.” “Blakeslee takes readers into the snowy, and deep into a genuinely human tale told with the energy and verve of a bestselling thriller. “ reads like a novel… a testament to the genius of Blakeslee’s tautly constructed narrative.” He tells the remarkable true story of O-Six, a wolf brought back to the Rockies by conservationists, as she fights hunters, cattle ranchers, and her own species for survival.” ![]() “In this vibrant work of nonfiction, a Texas Monthly writer goes into the mind-and heart-of a wolf. Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Hag-Seed (via Twitter) “Gripping and fascinating! Wolf versus wolf, wolf versus man, man versus man.” Gwynne, author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell “A transcendent tale of the American West.” Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief and Rin Tin Tin “Wild, poignant, and compelling, American Wolf is an important, beautifully wrought book about animals, about values, and about living on this earth.” Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake “ is a startlingly intimate portrait of the intricate, loving, human-like interrelationships that govern wolves in the wild, as observed in real time by a cadre of dedicated wolf-watchers-in the end, a drama of lupine love, care, and grief.” here are cherished, striking images here…testament to the ever-flowing life force that is the wolf.” “ American Wolf takes its place in a long lineage of wolf books…. Look after the social infrastructure and social bonds will largely look after themselves.” Klinenberg’s argument has a powerful simplicity. It’s harder to know what to do to support it…. It’s easy to write about the importance of local social life. “Ambitious… a significant and engaging work. “The story of one wolf’s struggle to survive in the majestic Yellowstone National Park offers an ambitious look through the eyes of an endangered animal.” The lives of the wolves in Yellowstone are often dramatic, but are full of touching, tender moments too, as Nate Blakeslee vividly writes in American Wolf.” “A matriarch overthrown in what seems fairly described as a ‘putsch,’ marauding gangs running attacks into neighboring territory, an hours-long standoff with a grizzly, a discarded water bottle-a rarity in the wilderness of a national park-tossed around and protected like a prized new toy. Seeing a wolf is exceptionally rare, and this book is as close as most readers will come.” ![]() “Blakeslee draws O-Six in novelistic… detail, using the conflicting insight and perspective of biologists, politicians, ranchers, environmentalists, lawyers, other animals, and hunters…. ![]() Anthony Lukas PrizeĪ Science Friday Best Science Book of 2017 These forces collide in American Wolf, a riveting multigenerational saga of hardship and triumph that tells a larger story about the ongoing cultural clash in the West-between those fighting for a vanishing way of life and those committed to restoring one of the country’s most iconic landscapes.Ī New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice She is beloved by wolf watchers, particularly renowned naturalist Rick McIntyre, and becomes something of a social media star, with followers around the world.īut as she raises her pups and protects her pack, O-Six is challenged on all fronts: by hunters, who compete with wolves for the elk they both prize by cattle ranchers who are losing livestock and have the ear of politicians and by other Yellowstone wolves who are vying for control of the park’s stunningly beautiful Lamar Valley. Uncommonly powerful, with gray fur and faint black ovals around each eye, O-Six is a kind and merciful leader, a fiercely intelligent fighter, and a doting mother. With novelistic detail, Nate Blakeslee tells the gripping story of one of these wolves, O-Six, a charismatic alpha female named for the year of her birth. But in recent decades, conservationists have brought wolves back to the Rockies, igniting a battle over the very soul of the West. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s. The enthralling true story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her.īefore men ruled the earth, there were wolves. ![]()
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