Cry Wolf

Inquest into the True Nature of a Predator

Harold R. Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

168 Seiten

2020
University of Regina Press (Verlag)
978-0-88977-744-6 (ISBN)

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"Required reading for anyone invested in our shared future with these powerful and complex creatures." —John Vaillant, author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce Growing up on a northern trap line, Harold Johnson was taught to keep his distance from wolves. For decades, wolves did the same for humans. But now this seems to be changing. In 2005, twenty-two-year-old Kenton Carnegie was killed in a wolf attack near his work camp. Part story, part forensic analysis, Cry Wolf examines this and other attacks, showing how we fail to take this apex predator seriously at our own peril. "A crucial and timely examination of our shifting relationship to the land in general and the Canis lupus in particular." —Eden Robinson, author of Son of a Trickster "Insightful . . . . Johnson eloquently argues that Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the wisdom of Indigenous people can help us better understand the true nature of predators such as wolves." —Cristina Eisenberg, PhD, author of The Wolf's Tooth and The Carnivore Way

Harold R. Johnson has a law degree from Harvard University and is the author of six books, including the bestseller Firewater , which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for non-fiction. He lives in La Ronge, SK.

INTRODUCTION: THE TRUTH

PART 1. EARLIER WOLF ENCOUNTERS
My Own Encounter
Jim Desroches’s Story
Fred Desjarlais’s Encounter
Todd Svarckopf and Chris Van Galder

PART 2. DEATH BY WOLF: KENTON CARNEGIE’S STORY
Kenton Goes Missing
Robert Burseth’s Story
What Constable Noey Saw
Suspects: Two Wolves Are Taken
The Post-Incident Report
What about the Bear Tracks?

PART 3. THE INQUEST
It Begins
The Condition and Position of the Body
What Happened to Kenton’s Clothing?
A Question of Dragging
The Feeding Pattern
The Types of Injuries
The “Scientific” Consensus: It Was a Bear
But…Bears Were Hibernating
Revisiting the Investigation

PART 4. OTHER EXPLANATIONS
My Thoughts on Wolves
The Wolf in Cree Trickster Stories
My Own Further Experiences with Wolves
We Don’t Know If We Don’t Study
The Last Word: What the Elders Say

WORKS CITED
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Erscheinungsdatum	23.01.2020
Zusatzinfo	1 Maps; 16 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Regina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 191 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	0-88977-744-6 / 0889777446
ISBN-13	978-0-88977-744-6 / 9780889777446
Zustand	Neuware