Coyote America : a natural and supernatural history / Dan Flores.
This book "is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the wolf in our backyards, as well as its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is a sort of Manifest Destiny in reverse, with a pioneering hero whose career holds up an uncanny mirror to the successes and failures of American expansionism"--Dust jacket flap.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780465052998
- ISBN: 0465052991
- Physical Description: vii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-256) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | American avatar -- Old man America -- Prairie wolf -- A war on wild things -- The archpredator of our time -- Morning in America -- Bright lights, big cities -- Coyote America -- Coyote consciousness. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Coyote > History. Coyote > Effect of human beings on > History. Human-animal relationships > North America > History. |
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- 7 of 9 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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