"The wolf’s resurgence across Europe is a story that will be new to most North American readers, and there is nobody better to tell it than Adam Weymouth. Who else would have conceived of—much less actually completed—retracing on foot the thousand-mile journey of the continent’s most celebrated wolf? I enjoyed the story of Slavc, the wandering Slovenian-born wolf who almost single-handedly recolonized the Italian Alps, almost as much as Weymouth’s account of the people the author met along the rural byways of Central Europe, many of them farmers contending with climate change, historic drought, political discord—and, yes, wolves. Highly recommended!” —Nate Blakeslee, author of The Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West

“Adam Weymouth set off in search of a wolf and found modernity howling back at him, as if nature were inseparable from culture, this being inseparable from us. A gorgeous, loping, deeply observant inquiry into the meaning of coexistence on a changing planet.” —Kate Harris, author of Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road

"A wolf's footsteps, followed; a continent's faultlines, traced: Adam Weymouth has made a formidable, thousand-mile foot-journey, both in the tracks of a wolf and into the heart of human-animal relations in contemporary Europe -- and written an exceptional book about it. His prose has a glinting precision of analysis and evocation to it; his intense curiosity and empathy extend across species boundaries as well towards people and landscapes. Weymouth has written a deeply fascinating story, grippingly told -- and produced a second book to stand alongside his outstanding debut, Kings of the Yukon." —Robert Macfarlane, author of Is a River Alive?