The Better to Eat You With
Fear in the Animal World
360 pages, 16 color plates, 63 halftones, 12 maps 6 x 9
©
2008
Cloth $29.00
ISBN: 9780226043630
Published November 2008
Foreword Prologue
Part One The Hunt for Eden 1. The Wolf is at the Door—Who’s Afraid? 2. The Shy Giant of the Forest 3. A Tropical Primate in Alaska 4. Emissaries of a Dying Epoch Part Two The Meek and the Bold 5. Subarctic Shadows 6. To Know Thy Enemy 7. Among the Naive 8. A Tiger East of the Sun Part Three A Search for Ice Age Relicts 9. A Continent of Virgins and Recent Ghosts 10. On Being Caribou and Musk Ox 11. Islands of Ice and Innocence Part Four The Predator’s Gaze
12. Changing the Rules of Engagement 13. Nomads of the Gobi 14. The Silent Cats of Patagonia Part Five Making the Beast More Savage, or Less? 15. A Credibility Conundrum 16. Different Sides of the Darwinian Divide 17. Of Fear and Culture Epilogue Acknowledgments Readings of Interest and Exploration Index
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