Animal Stories

These timeless, beautifully written essays share encounters and observations on a variety of Alaskan wildlife and include natural history information. In these essays about Alaskas best-known and most charismatic animalsgrizzlies and wolves, moose and Dall sheep, bald eagles and beluga whalesSherwonit also introduces readers to many of Alaskas largely overlooked species, from wood frogs to redpolls and shrews to lynx and wolverines. The stories are geographically diverse, stretching across the state, from the Panhandle to the Arctic, and also from Alaskas urban center, Anchorage, to its most remote backcountry. Sherwonit examines the complicated relationships humans have with other animals and consider different ways of knowing, and relating to, these critters. Animal Stories increases readers awareness and questions their own relationships with wild neighbors, wild relatives, and the inherent value that these animals have, irrespective of what they give to us.