wolves

Seventeen-year-old Jack London makes the arduous journey to the Yukon's gold fields in 1893, becoming increasingly uneasy about supernatural forces in the wilderness that seem to have taken a special interest in him.

A large timber wolf and his female companion lead their pack on a two-hundred-mile journey along the Winisk River in search of the Woodland Caribou, fighting off competing wolf packs, hunters, starvation, and dangerous waters.

Follows the adventures of a dog who is part wolf as he eventually makes his peace with man in the wilderness of northern Canada.

Follows the adventures of a dog who is part wolf as he eventually makes his peace with man in the wilderness of northern Canada. Includes illustrations, maps, photographs, and diagrams as well as explanations of history, geography, popular culture, social customs, and other aspects of life during the nineteenth century.

Discusses the habits, habitat, and endangered status of the wolf, as well as its place in human society.

Provides an overview of how wolves evolved into "man's best friends.".

Twelve-year-old Jack, his younger sister, and the family's teenage foster child Troy go to Yellowstone National Park, where Jack's mother, a wildlife veterinarian, is investigating the report that wolves reintroduced to the park have killed a dog there.

The dog hero, Buck, is stolen from his home and pressed into service as a sledge dog in the Klondike.

Discusses the habits and characteristics of wolves, once feared as vicious killers, but now understood to be gentle and peaceful wild animals, themselves in need of protection from hunters and encroaching civilization.