19 Best nonfiction books like The Wolf by Nate Blakeslee

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The Wolf

By: Nate Blakeslee

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

ASIN moved from this edition The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrat…

"By the 1920’s, the wolves had been all but eliminated from the continental United States, except for a small population in northern Minnesota and Michigan’s upper peninsula. It was a campaign unprecedented in its scope and thoroughness. One species almost completely whipped out another. The impetus for the killing was clear enough, but as Barry Lopez asked in “Of Wolves and Men"

-Nate Blakeslee, The Wolf

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Wolf by Nate Blakeslee , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves by Farley Mowat

1. Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

By: Farley Mowat

4.21

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

More than a half-century ago the naturalist Farley Mowat was sent to investigate why wolves were ki… read more

Similar categories in Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • wolves
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a …"

-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

"Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualiti…"

-Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves

Cover of Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores

2. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

By: Dan Flores

3.41

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific … read more

Similar categories in Dan Flores's Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • science
  • history
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone by Gary Ferguson, Douglas W. Smith

3. Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone

By: Gary Ferguson , Douglas W. Smith

3.31

Format: 267 pages,

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Similar categories in Gary Ferguson's Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • history
  • wolves
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

4. In the Temple of Wolves: A Winter's Immersion in Wild Yellowstone

By: Rick Lamplugh

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

More than 80 5-STAR reviews on Amazon. When Rick Lamplugh arrives at the historic Lamar Buffalo Ran… read more

Similar categories in Rick Lamplugh's In the Temple of Wolves: A Winter's Immersion in Wild Yellowstone book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • science
  • wolves
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook

5. A Wolf Called Romeo

By: Nick Jans

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The unlikely true story of a six-year friendship between a wild, oddly gentle black wolf and the pe… read more

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Cover of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben  Goldfarb

6. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • audiobook
  • history
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Wolf by Nate Blakeslee

7. The Wolf

By: Nate Blakeslee

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

ASIN moved from this edition The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrat… read more

Similar categories in Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • audiobook
  • history
  • wolves
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"By the 1920’s, the wolves had been all but eliminated from the continental United States, except for a small population in northern Minnesota and Michigan’s upper peninsula. It was a campaign unprece…"

-Nate Blakeslee, The Wolf

Cover of Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores

8. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

By: Dan Flores

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more

Similar categories in Dan Flores's Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • audiobook
  • history
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

Cover of Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future by Gloria Dickie

9. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

By: Gloria Dickie

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more

Similar categories in Gloria Dickie's Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • audiobook
  • history
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"

-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

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10. The Outlaw Noble Salt

By: Amy Harmon

4.46

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Amy Harmon comes a sweepingly romantic tale of risk, redempt… read more

Similar categories in Amy Harmon's The Outlaw Noble Salt book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • audiobook
Cover of Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness by Amy Irvine

11. Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness

By: Amy Irvine

4.01

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Ed Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty this fall, and its iconic autho… read more

Similar categories in Amy Irvine's Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • nature
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • environment
"By nature, we are a cabal."

-Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness

"Our most precious resource now is wonder. What we wonder ignites our imagination, unleashes our empathy, fuels our ferocity."

-Amy Irvine, Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness

Cover of Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear by Bryce Andrews

12. Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

By: Bryce Andrews

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the… read more

Similar categories in Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • audiobook
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog by Rick McIntyre

13. The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog

By: Rick McIntyre

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves—but park rangers killed the … read more

Similar categories in Rick McIntyre's The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • audiobook
  • history
  • wolves
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal by L. David Mech

14. Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal

By: L. David Mech

3.91

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

The world’s leading wolf expert describes the first years of a major study that transformed our und… read more

Similar categories in L. David Mech's Wolf Island: Discovering the Secrets of a Mythic Animal book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • audiobook
  • history
  • wolves
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone’s Legendary Druid Pack by Rick McIntyre

15. The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone’s Legendary Druid Pack

By: Rick McIntyre

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Male and female wolves have the unique ability to form long-lasting, deeply emotional bonds. This i… read more

Similar categories in Rick McIntyre's The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone’s Legendary Druid Pack book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • audiobook
  • history
  • wolves
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"I imagined him then walking the few feet to the hilltop, where he had bedded down so many times next his life partner, and lying down to rest. As he slowly drifted off to sleep, I would like to think…"

-Rick McIntyre, The Reign of Wolf 21: The Saga of Yellowstone’s Legendary Druid Pack

Cover of The Redemption of Wolf 302: From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male by Rick McIntyre

16. The Redemption of Wolf 302: From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male

By: Rick McIntyre

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the renowned wolf observer and author of The Rise of Wolf 8 and The Reign of Wolf 21 comes a s… read more

Similar categories in Rick McIntyre's The Redemption of Wolf 302: From Renegade to Yellowstone Alpha Male book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • audiobook
  • history
  • wolves
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear by Erica  Berry

17. Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

By: Erica Berry

3.55

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An original and probing debut work of nonfiction by a brilliant new writer, rooted in her years-lon… read more

Similar categories in Erica Berry's Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • audiobook
  • history
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"I see myself as a kaleidoscope of selves, wheeling through that poppy studded countryside, the colour from one self always tinting the colour of another. No barriers between them. Only the truth of t…"

-Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

"With both the last and the first wolf, I wonder, did you know just how alone you were? Beneath this question, lay the other one. The same one that now flickered in my chest as I travelled alone for i…"

-Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

Cover of Wisdom of Wolves, The: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack by Jim Dutcher

18. Wisdom of Wolves, The: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack

By: Jim Dutcher

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the world-famous couple who lived alongside a three-generation wolf pack, this book of inspira… read more

Similar categories in Jim Dutcher's Wisdom of Wolves, The: Lessons From the Sawtooth Pack book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • audiobook
  • wolves
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Alpha Female Wolf: The Fierce Legacy of Yellowstone’s 06 by Rick McIntyre

19. The Alpha Female Wolf: The Fierce Legacy of Yellowstone’s 06

By: Rick McIntyre

4.52

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Following five generations of female wolves - including the famous Oh-Six - this gripping family sa… read more

Similar categories in Rick McIntyre's The Alpha Female Wolf: The Fierce Legacy of Yellowstone’s 06 book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • audiobook
  • history
  • wolves
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry: How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For by Molly Stillman

20. If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry: How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For

By: Molly Stillman

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In this laugh-out-loud and heartfelt memoir, writer, speaker, and podcaster Molly Stillman shares h… read more

Similar categories in Molly Stillman's If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry: How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali: America's Wildest Peak by Patrick  Dean

21. A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali: America's Wildest Peak

By: Patrick Dean

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The captivating and heroic story of Hudson Stuck—an Episcopal priest—and his team's history-making … read more

Similar categories in Patrick Dean's A Window to Heaven: The Daring First Ascent of Denali: America's Wildest Peak book and Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf

  • nonfiction
  • history

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4.45

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4.39

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3.98

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