Hungry for Home: A Wolf Odyssey

by Asta Bowen

Book Overview

In this fictionalized account of real events, a female wolf named Marta, along with her young family, sets out on an epic journey to return to their home hunting grounds in Montana after they are... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684823616
• ISBN13: 9780684823614
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Interesting

Although I enjoyed "Wolf; the journey home," I found it to be a little boring. The wolves were interesting, complex, and realistic, but I was continuously discouraged when they repeatedly perished. As soon as I started to really like one of the wolves, they would die, thus leaving me drained emotionally, and wondering why I was reading the book to begin with. I understand that the author was basing her book on actual wolves and their lives, but I had hoped that there was some other message in the book besides: "Humans don't understand wolves, and it's the humans' fault that the wolves are dying." There was one human at the end who was kind, but he seemed to be the only human portrayed in a good light, and I was a little annoyed. I also wish that at least one of the main wolves could have been invented fictionally and stayed alive through the entire book. Overall, I enjoyed the book, but not its message, and I wished that more of the wolves came out okay in the end. That is why I give this book four stars.

Very nice.

Marta is a wolf whose mate dies in the early spring. She has to support three pups with the help of oldtooth, an elderly male. Its the modern age in society, and Marta and Oldtooth travel into a further and more dense area...just to be captured and relocated. It was late summer when she last saw the Dahl Lake, but when she is sent to Alaska, she flees and leaves her pack behind. Without her, her pack dies, will she be next? I like the broad language use and the many comparisons with things. I also love the plot, and how its based on a different point of view; one we seldom understand. THe survival theme will put readers on the edge as one thing after another unfolds. 4 stars, for good language use, suspence, and plot. Very realistic and eye-opening, with a non-anthropormorphic point of view. If you like the Oddessy-type books, you will love Wolf.

Hooray! A Realistic Wolf Book!

I was very impressed with Asta Bowen's novel of a wolf pack's struggle to find a homeland! I have found most books in which wolves, (or any animal, for that matter) play the lead role are a bit too anthropomorphic, and the wolves have the minds of humans. However, I was pleasently surprised to find WOLF containing little to no human-like sentimentality at all. Highly reccomended to wolf and dog lovers young and old. HIGHLY RECCOMENDED TO FANS OF NIK SAWE'S "WOLF TRAILS

Amazing, Simply Amazing!

This is a great book! I would highly recommend it. 'Asta Bowen depicts these wolves lives so realistically that you might think she had walked right along with thwm. It is as if she can think like a wolf, live like a wolf, feel like a wolf, BE A WOLF! This tragic tale is an amazingly moving and catching drama that I would recomend to any one! On a scale of 1-10, it's a 20! I loved it and I hope she writes some more!:-)This book should be included in everyone's home library. I have read it over and over and I have loved it more every time I read it! All I can say is that 'Asta Bowen is an amazing author, simply amazing!

It is a tragic, but a must-read book!

An alpha-female wolf named Marta lived in an almost perfect home in Pleasent Valley with her new litter of pups, but are soon "rescued" and relocated to a place where Grizzlies rule. Marta is then confident to return home-with or without the rest of her pack. She then struggles for her life, trying to find enough game to survive. She then finds a place which has much game, few humans, and just an all around great place to live. She then finds a mate and gives birth to her second litter of pups. Soon she...oh, I can't say or I'll ruin the book. You have to read this book! It's a sad book but a good one, too. This is a must read book.