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Coyote America - A Natural and Supernatural History (Paperback)
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Coyote America - A Natural and Supernatural History (Paperback)
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List price R460
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You Save R75 (16%)
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With its uncanny night howls, unrivaled ingenuity, and amazing
resilience, the coyote is the stuff of legends. In Indian folktales
it often appears as a deceptive trickster or a sly genius. But
legends don't come close to capturing the incredible survival story
of the coyote. As soon as Americans--especially white
Americans--began ranching and herding in the West, they began
working to destroy the coyote. Despite campaigns of annihilation
employing poisons, gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics,
coyotes didn't just survive, they thrived, expanding across the
continent from Anchorage, Alaska, to New York's Central Park. In
the war between humans and coyotes, coyotes have won hands-down.
Coyote America 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. An illuminating biography of
this extraordinary animal, Coyote America isn't just the story of
an animal's survival--it is one of the great epics of our time.
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Imprint: |
BasicBooks
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2017 |
Authors: |
Dan Flores
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Dimensions: |
209 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-465-09372-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-465-09372-8 |
Barcode: |
9780465093724 |
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