Title:
Coyote America : a natural and supernatural history / Dan Flores.
ISBN:
9780465052998
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016]
Physical Description:
vii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
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.
Summary:
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.
Subject Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn920018258
Availability:
Burnsville - Burnhaven~1
