A review by hannasandmann
The Philosopher and the Wolf: Lessons from the Wild on Love, Death, and Happiness by Mark Rowlands

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

This book depicted the connection between the author and the wolf beautifully and the philosophical insights were super interesting.

But here is the reason for major point deduction:
I was especially looking forward to reading this book and seeing the merge of philosophy and biology/ecology. However, that was not what happened. Biological statements were just dropped as facts and reletavised with the usual "some studies say this and some say that" without any citations, which is a detrimental way of dealing with science. Unfortunately, this makes the author look not just a little arrogant. 
Also,

the way Mark Rowlands acquired the wolf is deeply problematic in my eyes

but he reletavises that as well, which is a pity, because adressing it properly would not have diminished the value of the book in the slightest.