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Coyote America : a natural and supernatural history / Dan Flores.
Van Pelt Library QL737.C22 F63 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Flores, Dan, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coyote--History.
- Coyote.
- Coyote--Effect of human beings on--History.
- Human-animal relationships--North America--History.
- Human-animal relationships.
- History.
- North America.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-256) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Flores, Dan L. (Dan Louie), 1948- , author. Coyote America
- ISBN:
- 9780465052998
- 0465052991
- OCLC:
- 920018258
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