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From Ellesmere, an island 500 miles from the North Pole, scientist David Mech and photographer Jim Brandenburg bring back the first intimate images of wolves at home and on the hunt...
...North Pole, is a beautiful but forbidding world where the summer sun is candlelight soft and few living things can survive. It is also one of the last places on earth where the wolf roams unthreatened by man. In 1986 two men, biologist L. David Mech and photographer Jim Brandenburg, set out for Ellesmere to do what no one had ever done: live with a wild-wolf pack. Achieving all they had hoped for and more, Mech and Brandenburg managed to set up camp next to a wolf den and, most astonishingly, accompany the pack during hunts. Sponsored...
...story of those remarkable summers is told in a pair of picture-filled books to be published this month: Mech's The Arctic Wolf: Living with the Pack (Voyageur Press; $24.95) and Brandenburg's White Wolf: Living with an Arctic Legend (NorthWord Press; $40). Later this fall Brandenburg's film documentary of the second expedition will air as a National Geographic TV special. These portraits of the Arctic wolf will surprise many readers and viewers. For all its vaunted prowess as a fierce predator, the wolf leads a tough life and relies on complex social behavior to survive...
Despite the unforgiving conditions of the High Arctic, Mech and Brandenburg discovered that the Ellesmere wolves are secure, unlike their brethren elsewhere. Except for parts of Canada, Alaska and Minnesota, Canis lupus has all but vanished from North America. Wolves have been killed as a result of their exaggerated reputation as plunderers of livestock or just because people hate and fear them...
...Lawrence's In Praise of Wolves, has tried to rehabilitate the wolf's reputation. But specialists have been forced to study shy wild animals from a distance. No one actually lived with a wild-wolf pack and returned with photographs to prove it until Mech and Brandenburg traveled to Ellesmere...