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Description: |
vii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Note: |
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. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
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 |
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Awards Note: |
Awards: PEN America/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award finalist, 2017 |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Flores, Dan L. (Dan Louie), 1948- Coyote America. New York : Basic Books, 2016 ISBN 9780465098538 (DLC) 2016001156 |