Lessons from the Wolverine - Hardcover

Barry Lopez

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820319279 ISBN 13: 9780820319278

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 1997

Synopsis

This is the story of a young man who journeys through the arctic wilderness to find a family of wolverine and learn more about their mysterious power. The young man enters the dream landscape of two wolverine and receives from them the first lessons he will use to shape his adult life.

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Review:

Please tell that collaborative pair not to separate. They have a lifework to do together.

--Wallace Stegner

A rich example of contemporary mythmaking.

--Windy City Times

From the Back Cover:

In this story of spiritual adventure from the author and illustrator of Crow and Weasel, a young man journeys through the arctic wilderness to find a family of wolverine and learn more about their mysterious power. At the time the story opens the narrator is working as an airplane mechanic in northeast Alaska. Long sensitive to wild animals, he feels drawn to wolverines through his dreams. One day his work takes him to the riverside village of Eedaqna, where he meets an older man who is impressed by his integrity and his desire to make a connection with wolverines. The villager guides him into the Ruby Mountains to Caribou Caught by the Head Creek, a place where wolverines have a spiritual stronghold. Here the young man enters the dream landscape of two wolverine, and receives from them the first lessons he will use to shape his adult life. Barry Lopez's story, infused with gentle magic, shows how one man comes to experience the wondrous power of animals and to understand his place in the natural world in a new way.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0820319279
• ISBN 13: 9780820319278
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Tom Pohrt