Wolf Nation, Brenda Peterson
Wolf Nation, Brenda Peterson
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Wolf Nation
The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves

Author: Brenda Peterson

Narrator: Donna Postel

Unabridged: 10 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/26/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature, Animals

Synopsis

In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated them. Now, scientists, writers, and ordinary citizens are fighting to bring them back to the wild. Peterson, an eloquent voice in the battle for twenty years, makes the powerful case that without wolves, not only will our whole ecology unravel, but we'll lose much of our national soul.

About Brenda Peterson

Brenda Peterson is the author of eighteen books, including the novel Duck and Cover, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and I Want to Be Left Behind, selected by the Christian Science Monitor among the Top Ten Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010. Her most recent work, Your Life Is a Book, was a monthly Oprah book club selection. Peterson's work has appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and San Francisco Chronicle, and she has contributed environmental commentary to Seattle NPR stations and on animal and environmental issues for the Huffington Post. She lives in Seattle on the shores of Salish Sea.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brian

Peterson engages in the ongoing public relations war for wolf survival. She meets with ranchers in revolt against the U.S. government's modest wolf-reintroduction program, who sport bumper stickers declaring “Wolves are illegal immigrants,” or announcing that “wolves are terrorists on the order of O......more

Goodreads review by Lör

Free ARC provided by Netgalley and Perseus Books in return for an honest review. This in no way affected my opinion of the ARC I read Rating: 4 / 5 Publication Date: 02nd May 2017 Review Date: 29th April 2017 Wolves are terrorists on the order of Osama bin Laden This was the first thing I saw when op......more

Goodreads review by Diane Lynch

Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves by Brenda Peterson Wolves are my favorite animal.  So, when I saw this book, I was instantly intrigued.  Brenda Peterson does a nice job with portraying the historic and scientific aspect of saving the wild American wolves.  I am knowl......more

Goodreads review by C.

Since reading this book about the return of Wild American Wolves I have become absolutely engrossed with the stories of individual wolves and their families and the successful reintroduction of wolves to wildernesses, such as Yellowstone, for example, which is where they deserve to be since historic......more

Goodreads review by M.

A long and drawn-out treatise on the movement to protect and reestablish our country’s wild wolf population. A political and emotional plea to save one of our most important resources and in the process learn more about ourselves. A wolf’s loyalty to its pack and family, its willingness to sacrifice......more

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