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The Lost Wolves of Japan
by Brett L. Walker
- NATURAL HISTORY
- 2003
- PAPER
- 331 PAGES
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Drawing on Japanese history, literature, folklore and biology, Walker looks at the forces that caused the extinction of the wolves in Japan. It's a tale of the loss of habitat and changed attitudes toward nature. Walker is also the author of The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion,1590-1800. A volume in the excellent Weyerhaeuser Environmental series, chosen and with a forward by William Cronon.
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