I guess I read and review a new book about wolves every year which is quite interesting in itself since there aren’t any wolves in the UK. But we are fascinated by wolves as a species and we tend to love them or hate them. Some hanker after restoring the Grey Wolf to the UK but others are set against it. This very good book explores both the wolf and the human.
The introductory chapter is a fine piece of writing and had me hooked. The following chapters take us more of less chronologically from the last ice age to a chapter called Rewolfing and then to thoughts of the future. The author has the self-avowed aim of rehabilitating the much-maligned image of wolves through her work. The book is grounded in the author’s Ph.D. thesis Wolves in Beowulf and Other Old English Texts so this is no off-the-cuff fling at speaking up for wolves. It is an entertaining and informative (both are good things in a book!) 211-page account but the 50-page list of notes and references will not be much-used by what I hope are the many readers of this book.
The cover? It is yet another gorgeous book cover by Rachel Hudson. I like it a lot and I’d give the cover 10/10.
Wolf Land: the lost wolves of landscape and lore by Elizabeth Marshall is published by Pelagic.
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