jean craighead george julie of the wolves

I can’t credit a single book for igniting my interest in animal intelligence, but if I absolutely had to, it’d probably be this one. I remember reading this book as a kid and being absolutely fascinated by the descriptions of the ways the wolves (and Miyax) interacted and communicated with each other.

I love living close to nature with plumbing and yet, I still found this book very powerful and a great read. I love nature, but I am not suited to live in nature any longer. I did enjoy this and it is worth reading, in my opinion. That was news to me, but apparently, now they really hate that word. Jean does use the word Eskimo and the book is written in 1972 when that was accepted, but I recently learned that they consider that a slur and prefer to be called something else like Inuit. That part dragged, but the parts she is outside were amazing. There is a flashback to Julie living with that family she marries into and that was the place I got stuck for so long. The pace is a little slower than today, but I found it very engaging and interesting. She can spin a good yarn outdoors for certain. She wrote My side of the Mountain and that was all about surviving in the wilderness as well. Jean is an amazing writer and she obviously knows about survival skills. The best part of the story is when she is living with the wolves and learning from them.

She survives on the plains with the wolves. Julie is smart and knows how to read wolves. She runs off over the tundra of the Northern world and finds a wolf pack that takes her in. Julie was married off to a family that didn't quite work out for her. People should make money by letting people pay to come for a week or two and learn to survive on the land and appreciate the world around them. Julie has knowledge of how to survive in the wilderness. I find this story to be quite powerful and the message of living in balance with nature is quite a powerful theme and call. It took me a while to read this and it had little to do with the story and mostly to do with time. A reminder of what the world was like to live in Nature and with nature.

Jean craighead george julie of the wolves