Wolf

Informationen zum Autor Garry Marvin is professor of human-animal studies in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Roehampton. He has published widely in the field of animal studies and is one of the founding editors of Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing . His other books include Zoo Culture and Killing Animals. Klappentext Feared and revered, the wolf has been admired as a powerful hunter and symbol of the wild and reviled for its danger to humans and livestock. Garry Marvin reveals in Wolf how the ways in which wolves are imagined has had far-reaching implications for how actual wolves are treated by humans. Zusammenfassung Wolf! a new account of an animal feared! reviled and revered! which has always evoked powerful emotions in humans! investigates the latest scientific understanding of the wolf! as well as its place in literature! history and folklore.

Product details

• Authors: Garry Marvin, Gary Marvin
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2011
• EAN: 9781861898791
• ISBN: 978-1-86189-879-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Animal Series; Animal; Animal Series; Animal (Reaktion Books)
• Subject: Guides > Nature