Customer Reviews:
 awesome natural history narrative July 27, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read this book because I liked the movie. Luckily this was one of those rare movies that was made pretty true to the spirit of the book. Mowat mixes all kinds of descriptions and facts within the narrative, and it's all the more compelling because he wrote based on his own experience. I have gone on to read every Mowat book I can find...
 The love of wolves. June 12, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book by the Canadian naturalist Farley Mowat, which was made into a film in 1983, is an account, often humorous, of Mowat's study of the natural behavior of the arctic wolf in the treeless environs of northern Canada in the late 1940s. He had been sent up there to study the wolf and bring back data on how much the wolf population had been the apparent cause of the large decline in the caribou population. What he discovered was a detailed family life and the controversial observation that there no threat at all for the caribou (or to humans) from the wolves. This book is a classic in conservation literature. It shows the love man has of nature and how we should protect it. As most ranchers will tell you, coyotes are much more of a problem than wolves and wolves help keep the coyote population down.
 I hated it. June 4, 1999
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I Hated this book, it was very boring. I would read things I find on the ground before I read it again.
Ahhhhh, I didn't like it. May 27, 1999
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a book about wolves. It is a far cry from Dr. Seuss, but is still good for children. I as and adult, did not like the meaning behind it and it was treacherously boring, but if you want to read go ahead, because you probably have lots of time on your hands.
 Interesting if you like reading about research progress May 18, 1999
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am a high school student in grade 12. I read this book as a ISU novel study. I didn't really get into the book until the part about the mice. Otherwise it was pretty boring. But if you like that kind of stuff go ahead and get the book.I recommend this book to anyone over 40 with a lot of time on their hands.
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