Fiction Native American & Aboriginal
Zhòh: Destiny of the Wolf
- Publisher
- Wolves of the Yukon
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2021
- Category
- Native American & Aboriginal
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780986737633
- Publish Date
- Feb 2021
- List Price
- $22.99
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Description
So'tsal and Assan have been kidnapped by a murderous band of Skin Stealers, and Wolf Band are now embarking on a near-impossible winter search for the two women across the wind-blown, frozen tundra-steppe. But Wolf Band are facing their own troubles. Naali, the dreamer, is falling deeper into the grip of the Spirit World and may never return to normal life. Kazan is in a desperate struggle to hold onto her while the search for his mother and sister, and the survival of their people, becomes more hopeless each day.
The Skin Stealers are facing their own struggles. Laughing Man, their chief, has an unexpected reunion and must face revenge for crimes he committed in the past.
Intertwined among the human lives are the animals that share the prehistoric landscape. Zh�h, the wolf taken as a pup, is an adult now and is being slowly drawn away from Naali's spirit by her need to mate. Grey-Eye, her mother, faces an injury that will suddenly shorten her life and threaten the survival of her mate, Torn-Ear and their pups.
And moving darkly through all their lives is a great killing beast bent on seeking vengeance.
About the author
For 20 years, Robert (Bob) Hayes was the Yukon's wolf biologist. During those years, he studied hundreds of radio-collared wolves and conducted several long-term wolf-prey studies. He is considered a world expert on moose and caribou predation by wolves and the effects of wolf control efforts on wolves and their prey.
Bob's long-term research has led him to believe widespread aerial control of wolves is biologically wrong and that non-lethal methods of reducing predation is the future of wolf management.
This led him to spend years writing his first book for public consumption, Wolves of the Yukon, a book which he self-published and has been a success in both English and German editions.
Bob served as a Canadian member of the IUCN Wolf Specialist group for nearly a decade. He and his wife, Caroline, share their time between Whitehorse and Smithers, British Columbia. Bob is a Simon Fraser University Alumni.
