Its fundamental thesis was "wolves are okay," and that badly needed saying at the time. As such, it probably succeeded: it sank deep into the public consciousness of wolves, and surely helped the great turnaround of the wolf's image in the western world. If I remember correctly from reading a long-ago interview with him, Mowat fully intended his book to be pro-wolf propaganda. This was in the early 1960's, when a lot of people were bent on systematically eradicating the wolf as a species. Mowat knew a lot about life in the Arctic, but he didn't know much about wolves. And quite a lot of it is, at least in terms of factual accuracy, horseshit. Let's get one thing straight: Never Cry Wolf is fiction. I hate it's made up from start to finish, yet the tagline on the cover says, "The incredible true story of life among Arctic wolves." I love it because I love wolves and this is a well-written, entertaining story about wolves.
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