This is a truly absorbing book written in a beautiful style and with so much detail about all aspect of wolves - their history, their place in nature, their day-to-day habits and behaviour as a family, their relationship with the humans in their territory, especially with Native American society. There are also some interesting anecdotes, and facts and figures about the position of the wolf nowadays - but I found it was also an excellent portrayal about the dark and weak side of man. This, I found especially cute – when pups howl for the first time, usually around four weeks, the sudden sound startles them. The inn. I was here with...” Jaskier casts about vaguely then blinks up at Geralt. “Who was she again?”

McIvor, D. E. (1993). " The Rediscovery of North America by Barry Lopez (review)". Western American Literature. 27 (4): 379. doi: 10.1353/wal.1993.0119. ISSN 1948-7142. S2CID 165261722. Eskimos are keen observers of detail and the Nunamiut people of the Brooks Range in Alaska distinguish between male and female wolves and between lactating females and other wolves partly on the basis of differences in pelage. Females tend to have more reddish tones in their fur, and the hair on their legs tends to be smooth, where the hair on a male's leg has a slightly tufted appearance. Pelage changes texture as the animal grows older, with females generally developing the smoothest coats. Older animals tend to have more white hairs in the tip of the tail and elsewhere, along the nose and on the forehead, for example. Lactating females retain their long winter fur longer than other wolves and show hair loss around their nipples. What hair remains on the belly around the mammae develops a red-brown stain. We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth."

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Lessons from the Wolverine. University of Georgia Press. 1997. ISBN 0-8203-1927-9. OCLC 36165237. [33] When discussing wolves, the one thing most people mention is the howl, which “ typically consists of a single note… can contain as many as twelve related harmonics…” Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape. Trinity University Press. 2006. ISBN 1-59534-024-6. OCLC 70167626. [53] But this is not why Lopez turns to other viewpoints. Native American mythology, hunters' tales, and Christian folk legend aren't inferior alternatives to science, though they are not treated as epistemological equals either. By presenting these four viewpoints on the wolf, Lopez investigates human imagination of the wolf, its social construction by these four distinct societies. With the wolf as a fixed point of reference, Lopez is able to compare and contrast the symbology and sentiment humans have historically mapped onto nature – the contrast between European and Native American cultures of course stand in stark contrast, while the contemporary viewpoint is in some ways even more distinct from its historical roots.

Tydeman, William E. (August 26, 2013). Conversations with Barry Lopez: Walking the Path of Imagination. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-8061-5048-2. Lopez, Barry, ed. (2007). The future of nature: writing on a human ecology from Orion magazine (1sted.). Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions. ISBN 978-1-57131-306-5. OCLC 141187889. Archived from the original on December 27, 2020 . Retrieved December 27, 2020. a b c "Barry Lopez". National Book Foundation. Archived from the original on December 27, 2020 . Retrieved December 27, 2020.People have always killed predators but ‘ the history of killing wolves shows far less restraint and far more perversity. A lot of people didn’t just kill wolves; they tortured them… poisoned them… on such a scale that millions of other animals… were killed in the process… they even poisoned themselves, and burned down their own property torching the woods to get rid of wolf havens.’