The wilderness doesn't forgive weakness. Baree learns this in his first breath of open air. Born to a legendary wolfdog father and a blind wolf mother in the depths of a Canadian cavern, Baree emerges into a world that wants him dead. He is creature of two worlds - too wild to be tamed, too different to fit among wolves. As his eyes open to the snow and cold, he begins his education in the brutal mathematics of survival: bears that could crush him, owls that hunt in darkness, the endless hunt or be hunted. Yet something in him yearns beyond mere instinct. When fate draws him to a girl living on the frontier with her trapper father, Baree discovers that loyalty and love might offer something the wilderness never could - a place to belong. James Oliver Curwood writes with the raw precision of a man who knew the Canadian north intimately. This is adventure fiction that refuses to sentimentalize nature while still honoring the bond between human and animal. For readers who loved The Call of the Wild, for anyone who has ever felt too wild for one world and too tame for another.
