Book description
In the desperate search for food during a desolate winter, Marak leads
his pack of wolves into the cattle country of Wyoming. Lying in wait for
them near the town of Elliot Lake is a hunter, hired by a local rancher, Daniels.
The Viccary family is new to Elliot Lake, and thirteen-year-old Ed
Viccary is having difficulty adjusting to small-town life - not least
because of his conservationist views. When Marak is critically injured
by the hunter, it is Ed's father who finds him bleeding in the snow. The
local people insist that they turn the wolf over to Daniels, and the
Viccarys reluctantly concede. But Ed is appalled, and in the dead of
night he frees Marak, who escapes into the wilderness.
Marak is on his own, with every wolf pack trying to drive him away.
Eventually, he meets a solitary female, and they begin to carve out
their own territory. But Daniels and his hunters are closing in ...
Geoffrey Malone spent most of his childhood in Africa, where he managed
to avoid any formal education until the age of eleven. After school in
England, he joined the army for sixteen years, then worked and travelled
in North America. He became a broadcaster and wrote his first book about
his nearest neighbours, a family of beavers: 'Brunner'. He lives happily
in London with his wife and their cocker spaniel, Harriett, and advises
charities dedicated to the preservation of endangered species. He has
won the Children's Book of the Year prize in the French 'Tam-Tam, j'aime
lire' competition, and the 'Prix Enfant-Grandparent Europeen' for 'Torn
Ear'. He was also recently shortlisted for the Stockton Award for
'Elephant Ben'.
