The Red Snow
Subtitle: A Story of The Alaska Gray Wolf, by the author of ''Wager With the Wind.''
Edition: Doubleday First Edition
Publisher: Doubleday Company, Inc.
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Garden City, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780385131698
Copyright date: 1980 by James Greiner
Description: The Red Snow is a book rich in Arctic lore, which only a man who has spent much of his life in the inaccessible wilderness reaches of Alaska could have treated with such authority. Inside-back dust jkt.

July 05,2018 Goodreads member: Argyl rating: It was ok - 2 of 5 stars
I'm an avid reader of natural history in general, and books about particular animal species in particular, so I was quite eager to read The Red Snow, which follows the life of a pack of Arctic wolves for a year. Greiner is obviously knowledgeable about the subject and the book is full of interesting detail concerning the lives of wolves and other fauna and flora of the Arctic. Ostensibly, The Red Snow is fiction but the artifice of writing fiction is not much in evidence here, and the book wallows in page after page of description and explication.Greiner's writing style is repetitive, with little variation in sentence structure or length (most sentences are unnecessarily long). The only significant conflict in the book--that between the wolf pack and a crusty old trapper seeking revenge for the death of his dog and other crimes--is introduced too late in the book to be considered plot. There are many books about wolves that are fascinating and well-written. I would stick with those.