Why a Booktrail?
A story about the life of a teenage wolf on Ellesmere Island.
Scruffy: A Wolf Finds His Place in the Pack
What you need to know before your trail
Jim Brandenburg went to the arctic to take pictures for National Geographic but soon fell in love with the animals he found there that he started to look at them more closely and imagine what they were thinking and observing how they acted and lived.
He almost became one of them by blending in as best he could and peeked into the dens and places where the foxes would go. He saw one, a young wolf, a little outsider who feels awkward but who soon finds that he has an important role to play in the pack.
A life learning lesson by looking at wolves who are normally portrayed as violent creatures. This shows them in a new light.
Travel Guide
Nunavut – this is an interesting and little known place in Canada that comes to life in this simple but heartwarming tale
Ellesmere Island – so far north and in the dark snowy wild climate of the very very remote part of Canada. Ellesmere Island is a unique place on earth and to go there guided by both Jim Brandenburg and his new found friends is a travel guide with a difference, This is a guide to a new territory – formed in Canada in only 1999 and largely an area settled by the Inuit people. Their way of life, their land, their landscape is portrayed in fine detail seen through the eyes of some of the most misunderstood animals in the world
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