discocrow's review against another edition
2.0
I wanted to like this book so much more than I did. The Eastern Coyote is a fascinating creature, and one well worth deeper study. This book, while portending to be about just that, in truth was more about the symbolic nature of the creature than anything else.
The book spent far too much time focusing on [a:Catherine Reid|461319|Catherine Reid|https://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-d9f6a4a5badfda0f69e70cc94d962125.png] and why she wanted to see a coyote, than what the actual coyotes were like. While, yes, she was an interesting person and the symbolic value of an animal is a beautiful thing... I would have much preferred a more scientific or anthropological study of the animal in question. In short, I wanted this book to be to coyotes what [a:Barry Lopez|10262|Barry Lopez|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1319321209p2/10262.jpg]'s [b:Of Wolves and Men|743936|Of Wolves and Men|Barry Lopez|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1347919044s/743936.jpg|730087] was to wolves.
This book did manage a fair bit, though. Though in a less interesting way than [b:Daily Coyote|3209492|The Daily Coyote Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming|Shreve Stockton|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1396743476s/3209492.jpg|3243068] did. [a:Catherine Reid|461319|Catherine Reid|https://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-d9f6a4a5badfda0f69e70cc94d962125.png] did a good job of talking about the designation of Eastern Coyote as a species, and how wolves and coyotes have interbred to a degree in the past. She explained how they managed to carve out a niche and maintain it even in the territory of bigger better predators. I wish it had been a bigger bit of the book.
The book spent far too much time focusing on [a:Catherine Reid|461319|Catherine Reid|https://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-d9f6a4a5badfda0f69e70cc94d962125.png] and why she wanted to see a coyote, than what the actual coyotes were like. While, yes, she was an interesting person and the symbolic value of an animal is a beautiful thing... I would have much preferred a more scientific or anthropological study of the animal in question. In short, I wanted this book to be to coyotes what [a:Barry Lopez|10262|Barry Lopez|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1319321209p2/10262.jpg]'s [b:Of Wolves and Men|743936|Of Wolves and Men|Barry Lopez|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1347919044s/743936.jpg|730087] was to wolves.
This book did manage a fair bit, though. Though in a less interesting way than [b:Daily Coyote|3209492|The Daily Coyote Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming|Shreve Stockton|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1396743476s/3209492.jpg|3243068] did. [a:Catherine Reid|461319|Catherine Reid|https://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-d9f6a4a5badfda0f69e70cc94d962125.png] did a good job of talking about the designation of Eastern Coyote as a species, and how wolves and coyotes have interbred to a degree in the past. She explained how they managed to carve out a niche and maintain it even in the territory of bigger better predators. I wish it had been a bigger bit of the book.
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