The wolf exerts a powerful influence on the human imagination. It takes your stare and turns it back on you."

In this astonishing portrait, Barry Lopez draws upon an impressive range of natural history, scientific fieldwork, and traditional folklore - along with his own personal experience living among captive and free-ranging wolves - to reveal the curious, controversial nature of Canis lupus. Originally published in 1978, and now with a new afterword by the author, Of Wolves and Men is classic wildlife literature at its best

Barry Lopez is the bestselling author of Arctic Dreams, Crow and Weasel, About This Life, Light Action in the Caribbean, Field Notes, and other works. He is a recipient of the National Book Award, the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the John Burroughs and John Hay medals, and other honors.