Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was to be the world’s only official wolf interpreter. But government funding did not come through for the position, so I had to give it up. I proposed that the position be privately funded, and it worked. #2 I was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1950s. I spent my first ten years in the nearby small rural town of Billerica. I had an idyllic childhood there, spending hours outdoors. I became increasingly fascinated with wildlife. #3 I spent many summers in Alaska, and in 1975, the Alaska Legislature asked the federal government to officially change the name of the park to Denali. The name was not to change until 1980, but Denali was the name commonly used in Alaska at that time. #4 I was a migrant worker during those years, moving from job to job. I spent fifteen summers in Denali and three in Glacier National Park, watching and learning about wolves. I was asked to write a book about them, and in 1993 I published A Society of Wolves: National Parks and the Battle over the Wolf.

リック・マッキンタイアの情熱が凝縮された本作は、単なる野生動物の観察記ではありません。それは、群れの中で弱かった存在が真のリーダーへと成長を遂げる「精神の進化」を描いた、極めて文学的な生命の叙事詩です。著者の没入感溢れる筆致は、狼たちの社会を人間社会の鏡として映し出し、他者への慈しみや自己犠牲の尊さを私たちに深く問いかけます。 北米の雄大な自然を背景に、生涯を狼に捧げた観察者という孤独な伴走者の視点から語られる物語には、言葉を超えた魂の交流が刻まれています。科学的な知見を芸術的な人間ドラマへと昇華させた著者の手腕は、読者の心に野性の鼓動を呼び覚まし、真の強さとは何かを鮮烈に突きつけてくるでしょう。