Coyote America
Subtitle: a natural and supernatural history
By: Dan Flores
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780465052998
Subjects: Coyote; History; Human-animal relationships; Effect of human beings on
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: American avatar; title: Old man America; title: Prairie wolf; title: A war on wild things; title: The archpredator of our time; title: Morning in America; title: Bright lights, big cities; title: Coyote America; title: Coyote consciousness.