The Wolf Talk

by Shaun Ellis

Genres: Nonfiction

Paperback

First published August 1, 2010

Reviews

[I Read · Rating 2 out of 5]

This wasn't exactly what I had expected. I thought that the whole book would be documenting his time living with the animals and I'd hoped to be able to gain more insight into wolf behaviour and body language through this. In fact very little of the text referred to this.

Some of it was interesting, a lot not so and at times I felt a mild hint of self importance coming through the writing. However, it sounds like the team are doing very important work with and for the wolves.

Another downer was that the pictures were in black and white and only one or two had any text beneath to explain which wolf it was and what it was showing.

[Rebecca_harley · Rating 2 out of 5]

The content of this book was not what I had expected when I picked it up. It seemed from the blurb that it would mostly be about the time the author spent living as part of a wolf pack but alas it was not. There were lots of images but only a couple were given any captions, something I feel would have made a big improvement if it had been done for all of them. The order of the chapters and even some sections within chapters, felt a bit jumbled and disorganised, making for a confusing read at some points as the author would jump back and forth between narrative about past experiences, present work, different continents and different packs very suddenly. Overall I think it could have been done better but still it contained some interesting information about wolves.

[Catherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was expecting to be disappointed with this having read some of the reviews, but I most definitely was not. Although Shaun's writing is not a patch with Jim and Jamie Dutcher, his insight into wolf behaviour and heirarchy is fascinating. I thoroughly enjoyed the read, and felt as though I had learned something from the book, having been a wolf fanatic since my early years. I would recommend this to anyone who has a love of the mystery of the Wolf, or indeed any dog lover :D

[Badger · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love wolves.