Lone Wolf
Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness
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Narrateur(s):
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John Sackville
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Auteur(s):
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Adam Weymouth
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An intimate account of an epic walking journey through a tense and shifting Europe in the footsteps of one extraordinary wolf.
In the winter of 2011, a young wolf, named Slavc by the scientists who collared him, left his natal pack's territory in Slovenia, embarking on what would become a two thousand kilometre trek to northern Italy. There, he found a mate—named Juliet—and they produced the first pack in the region in a hundred years. A decade later, captivated by Slavc's journey, Adam Weymouth set out to walk the same route. As he made his way through mountainous terrain, villages and farmland, he bore witness to the fears and harsh realities of those living on the margins of rural society at a time of deep political and social flux, for whom the surging wolf population posed an existential threat. In Lone Wolf, Weymouth interrogates how the wolf—loved and loathed, vilified and romanticized throughout history—is re-emerging in wild and cultivated landscapes; how the borders between us and them are slipping away; and what our deep-rooted fear of the mysterious creature really means.
Sharply observed, searching, poetic and revealing, Lone Wolf is a story of wildness and of the human desire for order in an ever-evolving world.
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"The wolf’s resurgence across Europe is a story that will be new to most North American readers, and there is nobody better to tell it than Adam Weymouth. Who else would have conceived of—much less actually completed—retracing on foot the thousand-mile journey of the continent’s most celebrated wolf? I enjoyed the story of Slavc, the wandering Slovenian-born wolf who almost single-handedly recolonized the Italian Alps, almost as much as Weymouth’s account of the people the author met along the rural byways of Central Europe, many of them farmers contending with climate change, historic drought, political discord—and, yes, wolves. Highly recommended!” —Nate Blakeslee, author of The Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
“Adam Weymouth set off in search of a wolf and found modernity howling back at him, as if nature were inseparable from culture, this being inseparable from us. A gorgeous, loping, deeply observant inquiry into the meaning of coexistence on a changing planet.” —Kate Harris, author of Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road
"A wolf's footsteps, followed; a continent's faultlines, traced: Adam Weymouth has made a formidable, thousand-mile foot-journey, both in the tracks of a wolf and into the heart of human-animal relations in contemporary Europe -- and written an exceptional book about it. His prose has a glinting precision of analysis and evocation to it; his intense curiosity and empathy extend across species boundaries as well towards people and landscapes. Weymouth has written a deeply fascinating story, grippingly told -- and produced a second book to stand alongside his outstanding debut, Kings of the Yukon." —Robert Macfarlane, author of Is a River Alive?