New insights into the changing human attitudes towards wild nature through the depiction of wolves in human culture and heritage.

Few animals arouse such strong opinion as the wolf. It occupies a contested, ambiguous, yet central role in human culture and heritage. It appears as both an inspirational emblem of the wild and an embodiment of evil. Offering a mirror to different human attitudes, beliefs, and values, the wolf is, arguably, the species that plays the greatest role in shaping our views on what nature is or should be.

North America and, more recently, Europe have witnessed a remarkable return of the grey wolf (Canis lupus, and its close relative the Eurasian wolf, Canis lupus lupus) to eco-systems. The essays collected here explore aspects of this recovery, and consider the history, literature and myth surrounding this iconic species. There are chapters on wolf taxonomy, including the coywolf, the red wolf, and the many faces of the dingo. We also meet the Tasmanian wolf and encounter Nazi Werewolves from Outer Space. The book explores the challenges of separating fact from fiction and superstition, and our willingness to co-exist with large carnivores in the twenty-first century. Biologists, historians, anthropologists, cultural theorists, conservationists and museologists will all find riches in the detail presented in this wolf collection.

Preface & Acknowledgments
Poem: Trophic Cascade byCamille T. Dungy
Foreword
Luigi Boitani
Part I: Imagining the Wolf
1. The Wolf in the Human Mind Across Space and Time
Erwin van Maanen
2. A History of Wolves and People in France
Jean-Marc MoriceauandP van Maanen
3. WolvesandOtherMammalsHunted in Medieval English Forests
Lee Raye
4. 'Uuluesheued!' The Historical Significance of the Wolf to Early Indo-Europeans
Rob Lenders
5. Wolves Behind Bars
Helen Cowie
6. Nazi Werewolves from Outer Space: Posthuman-wolf-multiplicities and Their (Mis)appropriations
Jamie Mcphie
7. Never Mind the Girl; What about the Wolf?
Marie Addyman
8. Whose Wolf Is It Anyway? Wolves, Wilderness and Belonging
Chris Powici
9. Defined 'as much by their absence as their iconography': Reimagining Wolves in Cumbria in Sarah Hall's The Wolf Border
Penny Bradshaw
10. A 'Wasteland' Infested by Wolves: The Fallacy of 'Dark Age' England
Elizabeth Marshall
Part II: What Makes the Wolf?
11. The Wolf Pack
Peter Davis
12. The Wolf in the Pastoral System of Southern France
Jean-Marc Landry and Jean-Luc Borelli
13.Contemporary Public Images of the Wolf
Helene Figari and Ketil Skogen
14. "The Sweetness of Freedom": Reflections on the Occasion of the Japanese Wolf
Holger Funk
15. Reimagining the Dingo: The 'Australian Wolf' or Just a Feral Dog?
Bradley P. Smith, Robert G. Appleby and Kylie M. Cairns
16. 'Pushing the Ecological Niche: A ​Sea Wolf Called Takaya.'
Cheryl Alexander and Karen Lloyd
17. 'Hunger-Greedy Appetite': The Wolf in Early-Modern English Natural History
Marie Addyman
18. What About the Coywolf?
Javier D. Monzón
19. Is that a wolf? Politics, Science and Red Wolf Identity
Peter Brewitt and Lawson Giles
20. The Thylacine - A Wolf in Name Only
Stephen R. Sleightholme and Cameron R. Campbell
Part III: Return of the Wolf
21. Landscapes of Coexistence: Livestock and Wolves in the Mountains of North Spain
Nigel Dykes
22. The Wolves of Yellowstone - Saviour of the Songbird or Piece of the Puzzle?
TJ Clark-Wolf, Rene Beyers, Peter Brewitt, Ian Convery & Owen Nevin
23. Wolf-Beaver Dynamics in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem, Minnesota
Thomas D. Gable, Sean Johnson-Bice, Austin T. Homkes, Steve K. Windels, John G. Bruggink, and Joseph K. Bump
24. The Return of the Wolf in Germany: A Success Story of Rewilding with a Future?
James Brückner and Erwin van Maanen
25. Finding Common Ground with Wolves: Interspecies Communication is a Shared Landscape
Martin Drenthen
26. The Case for Wolves in the UK
Ian Convery, Owen Nevin, Elsie Blackshaw-Crosby, Deborah Brady & Mark Fisher
Part IV Personal Encounters
27. Tracking Wolves in Western Europe: A Photo-Essay
Photography by Marielle van Uitert and text by Karen Lloyd
28. Speaking Out for Wolves: A Personal Reflection
Tracy Hayes
29. To Receive the Wolf
Karen Lloyd
30. Úlfr and Gris: Spectral Animal Companions of the Atomic Priest
Robert Williams
31. The Three-Legged Stool: Wolves, Shepherds and Sheep
Lee Schofield
32. The Helsfell Wolf
Karen Lloyd
Afterword: The Ecological Disadvantage of Living on an Island
Mark Fisher