Coffee Table Book of: Wolves and Foxes (Hardcover)

Description

Coffee Table Book of: Wolves and Foxes is a large format book of wolves and foxes, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two: grey wolves, red and arctic foxes, coyotes and the small foxes of the deserts, their pups and kits at the den, faces, paws and fur seen close, tracks in snow and mud, and the forests, tundra, prairies, deserts and coasts where they live, at many hours and in every season.

Grey wolves cross a frozen lake in single file at dawn, trot a misty river bar, rest on a sunny outcrop, stand in falling snow, walk a snowy riverbank with two ravens at their heels, run side by side across a mountain slope and lift their heads into the wind on a high meadow, while a black wolf walks a lake shore in autumn mist and a white wolf of the far north stands on the spring tundra.

Red foxes stand in a frosty meadow at sunrise, listen for mice under the snow, sleep curled in a snowfall with their tails over their noses, cross a frozen river at dusk and sit above a beach at sunset, while their kits play at the mouth of the den.

Coyotes howl at dusk in sagebrush country, leap for mice in a snowy field, trot a desert wash at sunrise and stand among autumn aspens, with their pups at a grassy den. In the deserts the fennec sits on a dune at dusk and walks a sandy crest under the stars, and the kit fox stands among low shrubs with its kits at the den nearby. The tree climbing grey fox, the tiny swift fox, the bat eared fox and the long legged maned wolf complete the family.

Faces, paws and fur are seen close, and the places stand empty at every hour: a snowy spruce forest, a frozen lake under the stars, rolling autumn tundra, a mountain valley at dusk, a summer prairie, high dunes at dawn, a red desert canyon, coastal dunes and an old pine wood in morning mist.

Short notes run through the book, on how wolves, foxes and coyotes hunt, travel and raise their young, how their coats change with the seasons, and the many kinds of wild dog alive today: a wolf’s sense of smell is many times keener than a human’s, the arctic fox turns white in winter and brown or grey in summer, matching the land, for its size, the fennec has the biggest ears of any member of the dog family, and a sleeping fox wraps its bushy tail over its nose and feet to keep them warm.

Printed in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a hardcover with the art printed on the case.