In 2011, a lone wolf named Slavc set out from his home territory of
Slovenia on an epic journey across the Alps. Tracked by a GPS collar,
he walked over a thousand miles. In Italy he bumped into a female wolf
on a walkabout of her own—the only two wolves for hundreds of square
miles—and when they mated, they formed the first pack to call these
mountains home in over a century. Today there are more than a hundred
wolves in the area, the result of their remarkable meeting.
In Lone Wolf, writer Adam Weymouth walks the same path through the
mountains of Central Europe, interrogating the fears and realities of
those living on land that is being repopulated by wolves and exploring
the economic, political, and climate upheavals that are seeing a
centuries-old way of life being upended.
Weymouth endeavors to understand how wolves—vilified throughout history
and folklore—are recolonizing lands where they have been unknown for
centuries and how, as the wolf has returned, the fear and hatred have
come back, too. Slavc is one more outsider in a region now wrestling
with an influx of immigration and a resurgence of the far right,
alongside impacts of climate change that are already very real. It is
here that questions of how we see the other and treat the Earth cannot
be ignored. Examining the political dimensions brought to light by this
individual animal’s trek, Lone Wolf tells a newly resonant story—one
about the courage required to seek out a new life and the challenge of
accepting the changing world around us.
Sharply observed, searching, and written in precise, poetic prose, Lone
Wolf explores the thorny connection between humans and nature, and
indeed between borders themselves, and presses us to consider this
much-discussed creature anew.
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