Part I: Some small beginnings in experience. Of wolves and boyhood fear and fascination
Part II: Toward understanding wolves, what they are, and what they do
a factual background. Of the nature of wolves
Of wolves and wolf prey
Of wolves, reindeer, caribou, and human mistakes
Of wolves and deer and deer range and man
Of man and wolves and labels and morals
Part III: Toward an appreciation of wolves as part of what is wild and free. Of wolves and the big bog
Mostly about coyotes and the west river country
Of wilderness and wolves
Of wilderness and wolves and Scandinavia
Of modernity and wolves and a wolf named dagwood
Of man and maturity
Epilogue: Going on from some reflections about the dog in the manger.