![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than simply collecting and publishing facts and figures about wolves, he focusses on telling their engrossing tales-which he, with his five million words of field notes, is uniquely positioned to do-to the tourists he encounters daily. McIntyre, who is also a writer, grasps the relationship between storytelling and conservation. Seeing a wolf is exceptionally rare, and this book is as close as most readers will come. The sightings were a kind of sustenance for him, and, as the book romps on, they are for the reader, too. Mostly, though, Blakeslee presents O-Six and her evolving, adoring pack-the Motown-sounding “Lamars”-from the empathetic perspective of “the watchers.” These are the civilian non-scientists, like McIntyre, whom Blakeslee describes as “the Michael Jordan of wolf-watching,” an observer so wolf-obsessed that he once went eight hundred and ninety-one days in a row with at least one sighting. (You may have heard of her: she became famous.) Blakeslee draws O-Six in novelistic, sometimes anthropomorphic detail, using the conflicting insight and perspective of biologists, politicians, ranchers, environmentalists, lawyers, other animals, and hunters. An alpha female and hunter nonpareil, her name is O-Six. ![]() McIntyre is the central human character in “ American Wolf,” a new book by the journalist Nate Blakeslee that tells the life story of a single gray wolf living both within and-much more dangerously-just outside Yellowstone. ![]()
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