![]() ![]() ![]() Injured, and stranded far from home, Athaba is forced to strike up an uneasy alliance with his natural enemy: a man. Survival in the icy wastes is hard and dangerous without the comfort and protection of the pack. Exiled from his pack for breaking its rigid codes of behaviour and showing too much imagination, Athaba becomes a 'raven wolf', a lonely scavenger living on scraps and his wits. Into this bleak landscape, Athaba is born, a young wolf destined for great adventure. Snow became darkness and darkness snow, and any creature lost between the two found a rock or a tree and lay down beside it, to wait until the world had formed again.' The sky and the land had become part of each other: a scatterwind night swirling with fragments of black and white. Outside the den a storm was lashing the spruce trees. The wolf Meshiska gave birth to five cubs on the night before full moon. ![]()
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