Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves By Brenda Peterson
Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves
A Monumental Three-Centurion Environmental History of America’s Most Polarizing Apex Predator
A Monumental Three-Centurion Environmental History of America’s Most Polarizing Apex Predator
Bibliographic Specifications
• Title: Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves
• Author: Brenda Peterson
• Publisher: Da Capo Press (An imprint of Perseus Books / Hachette Book Group), Boston
• Publication Date: 2017
• ISBN-10: 030682493X
• ISBN-13: 9780306824937
• Edition Details: First Edition, Standard Hardcover Release.
• Binding: Original publisher's premium quarter-cloth or heavy textured paperboards with crisp metal-stamped spine typography, housed in the original illustrated satin-finish dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 320 pages. Enhanced with central black-and-white photographic plates, historical wildlife maps, and chapter-heading illustrations printed on sustainable woodfree text stock.
• Language: English
• Title: Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves
• Author: Brenda Peterson
• Publisher: Da Capo Press (An imprint of Perseus Books / Hachette Book Group), Boston
• Publication Date: 2017
• ISBN-10: 030682493X
• ISBN-13: 9780306824937
• Edition Details: First Edition, Standard Hardcover Release.
• Binding: Original publisher's premium quarter-cloth or heavy textured paperboards with crisp metal-stamped spine typography, housed in the original illustrated satin-finish dust jacket.
• Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 320 pages. Enhanced with central black-and-white photographic plates, historical wildlife maps, and chapter-heading illustrations printed on sustainable woodfree text stock.
• Language: English
Official Condition Report
• The Book: Fine / Mint
o Exterior / Boards: The original publisher's hardboards are in spectacular, flawless condition. All four corner tips remain perfectly sharp, rigid, and unbumped, with absolutely linear edges. The spine is completely straight, unbroken, and structurally undamaged, holding its tight original profile as if unread.
o Interior: Pristine, immaculate, and bright white. The 320 pages are crisp, flat, and completely free of any traditional defects such as thumb-soil, foxing, age-toning, or dog-ears. Free of previous owner gift plates, ink stamps, library markings, or dealer pencil notations.
• The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus (VG+)
o Condition Details: The original illustrated jacket is vibrant, clean, and entirely complete. It exhibits only very limited, microscopically faint signs of superficial shelf-friction or edge-wear along the spine extremities. It has been carefully fitted with a professional, museum-grade clear cellophane archival sleeve to guarantee absolute protection from future atmospheric wear or handling friction.
• The Book: Fine / Mint
o Exterior / Boards: The original publisher's hardboards are in spectacular, flawless condition. All four corner tips remain perfectly sharp, rigid, and unbumped, with absolutely linear edges. The spine is completely straight, unbroken, and structurally undamaged, holding its tight original profile as if unread.
o Interior: Pristine, immaculate, and bright white. The 320 pages are crisp, flat, and completely free of any traditional defects such as thumb-soil, foxing, age-toning, or dog-ears. Free of previous owner gift plates, ink stamps, library markings, or dealer pencil notations.
• The Dust Jacket: Very Good Plus (VG+)
o Condition Details: The original illustrated jacket is vibrant, clean, and entirely complete. It exhibits only very limited, microscopically faint signs of superficial shelf-friction or edge-wear along the spine extremities. It has been carefully fitted with a professional, museum-grade clear cellophane archival sleeve to guarantee absolute protection from future atmospheric wear or handling friction.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 2017 by Da Capo Press, Wolf Nation stands in the definitive literary lineage of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac. Written by acclaimed environmental journalist Brenda Peterson, this expansive work chronicles the complex 300-year history of wild wolves in North America—a history that serves as a mirror to human cultural development.
Published in 2017 by Da Capo Press, Wolf Nation stands in the definitive literary lineage of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America and Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac. Written by acclaimed environmental journalist Brenda Peterson, this expansive work chronicles the complex 300-year history of wild wolves in North America—a history that serves as a mirror to human cultural development.
Peterson traces the narrative trajectory from the earliest Indigenous nations who deeply revered the wolf, through the arrival of European settlers who launched a zealous, state-sanctioned extermination campaign that pushed the apex predator to the absolute brink of extinction. Turning to the modern era, the book highlights the passionate network of scientists, reintroduction biologists, writers, and ordinary citizens fighting to protect wolves in the wild. As an eloquent voice on the frontlines of this ecological battle for over twenty years, Peterson makes a powerful, data-backed case for trophic cascades. She argues that without wolves, entire ecosystems unravel, and human culture loses a vital piece of its wild heritage. This out-of-print hardcover remains an essential reference for wildlife biologists, conservation historians, and collectors of modern natural history literature.
Author Profile: Brenda Peterson
Brenda Peterson is a highly distinguished American author, environmental journalist, and nature writer who has published over eighteen books, including the critically acclaimed Living with Wolves and Build Me an Ark. Her work has appeared prominently in The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, and on National Public Radio (NPR). For over two decades, she has actively documented predator ecology and wolf pack dynamics, particularly tracking the historic gray wolf reintroductions in Yellowstone National Park and the Pacific Northwest. Celebrated for combining rigorous scientific reporting with deeply evocative, narrative prose, Peterson has received numerous accolades from literary and conservation circles alike, establishing her as one of the most authoritative voices in modern American wildlife literature.
Brenda Peterson is a highly distinguished American author, environmental journalist, and nature writer who has published over eighteen books, including the critically acclaimed Living with Wolves and Build Me an Ark. Her work has appeared prominently in The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, and on National Public Radio (NPR). For over two decades, she has actively documented predator ecology and wolf pack dynamics, particularly tracking the historic gray wolf reintroductions in Yellowstone National Park and the Pacific Northwest. Celebrated for combining rigorous scientific reporting with deeply evocative, narrative prose, Peterson has received numerous accolades from literary and conservation circles alike, establishing her as one of the most authoritative voices in modern American wildlife literature.
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