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Of Wilderness and Wolves /
"'I was a predator, myself, and lived close to the land.' With these words, Paul L. Errington begins this lost classic. Now in print for the first time, the book celebrates a key predator: the wolf. One of the most influential biologists of the twentieth century, Errington melds his e...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1: Some small beginnings in experience. Of wolves and boyhood fear and fascination
- Part 2: Toward understanding wolves, what they are, and what they do--a factual background. Of the nature of wolves ; Of wolves and wolf prey ; Of wolves, reindeer, caribou, and human mistakes ; Of wolves and deer and deer range and man ; Of man and wolves and labels and morals
- Part 3: Toward an appreciation of wolves as part of what is wild and free. Of wolves and the big bog ; Mostly about coyotes and the west river country ; Of wilderness and wolves ; Of wilderness and wolves and Scandinavia ; Of modernity and wolves and a wolf named Dagwood ; Of man and maturity
- Epilogue: Going on from some reflections about the dog in the manger.