Shreve Stockton
Hardcover | Pages: 287 pages Rating: 3.99 | 2908 Users | 423 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming |
| Author | : | Shreve Stockton |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 287 pages |
| Published | : | December 2nd 2008 by Simon & Schuster (first published 2008) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Animals. Autobiography. Memoir. Environment. Nature. Biography |
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Great unknowns were out there to be seen, felt, experienced; this was what life meant to me, this was what life was for.
I loved this book. Loved, loved, loved it. There.
Telling the story of a surviving coyote pup who is adopted by a woman looking for her own life's adventure, this is a beautifully laid-out hardback with arresting photographs (by the author) and text that involves the reader right from the get-go. How many books are there about adopting a coyote? Actually, it's more than an adoption. Charlie the Coyote becomes a valued member of the family, joining Eli the Dominant Cat, who puts Charlie in his place immediately. The woman, the cat, and the coyote form a bond of trust and loyalty, although there are trials and tribulations along the way.
This is not some cutesy tale about a family taking in a stray raccoon or a wounded dog. It is a hard look at the policies currently undertaken by the United States federal government to rid the land of coyotes (in order to protect the sheep and cattle...who are the intruders). It is a hard look at how a man, who becomes involved with the author, has to come to deal with the early accidental death of his little daughter. It is a hard look at the way Charlie starts to misconstrue the relationship with Shreve Stockton. It is a hard look at the boundaries the author decides to tackle in order to save her relationship with this extraordinary coyote.
The baby coyote was darling; defenseless and helpless. The baby coyote was a responsibility, a commitment. The baby coyote was covered with fat, brown fleas.
When I found this book in a little bookshop, I had not heard of "The Daily Coyote" blog and website. Instead, I purchased the book for its quality, the nice paper stock, the beautiful pictures, and the clumsy-looking coyote on the front cover. I found a treasure. Even if you don't get the book, check out the website for updates on Charlie and his ever expanding family (dog, cow, horse). If anything, I finished this book realizing that Charlie has as much a right to a life filled with his family members as any human.
And when we only believe what has been said before, what has been done before, we give our own power away.
Book Season = Spring (share the land)
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| Original Title: | The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming |
| ISBN: | 1416592180 (ISBN13: 9781416592181) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Ten Sleep, Wyoming,2008(United States) |
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Ratings: 3.99 From 2908 Users | 423 ReviewsArticle Based On Books The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming
Haydon GlennMs. PeymanEnglish 18 December 2014Srp,Book Review The Daily Coyote The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton is a great story about the incredible life of Shreve Stockton. Shreve decides that she doesn't like how her life in the big city is so she decides to move out into Wyoming. Once she gets to Wyoming she moves into a small cabin and her new boyfriend comes to visit her often. Her boyfriend is a coyote hunter but one day felt compelled to save a baby coyote and decided that ShreveI really enjoyed this book about the raising of a coyote pup by the author. It explored the joys and the challenges of raising a wild animal. It also went into the beauty and harshness of the Wyoming countryside.
I'm not a huge fan of non-fiction books. But true stories like this one really capture my attention and my heart. When I found out that this book was about an adopted coyote, I was very intrigued. I've always loved animals, especially canines, and after reading about this book, I knew it was something that needed to be on my immediate To Read List. First off, the author Shreve Stockton is a fantastic writer and really motivated me to continue my own writing. The way she describes her
Shreve Stockton, city girl, is on the move back to New York City after a couple of years living in San Francisco traveling across the country on her Vespa scooter. To her surprise, she cant forget her awe as she passed through Wyoming, and she decides to move there, to a little town called Ten Sleep, so named because it situated between two former Indian camps, and was ten sleeps away from each of them. The degree of self-sufficiency required to live where there are no nearby grocery stores
Stories like this are the kind of thing you need to cheer you up. The author is a city girl, who drove through Wyoming, wound up loving the place and moving there, to one of those half-horse towns. One of the neighbors (and later her boyfriend) brings her a coyote pup, from a den he was supposed to exterminate. She winds up keeping the pup, and most of the story is about the trials, tribulations and joy of raising him from a pup to an adult coyote. She has a cat too, but rest assured-the coyote
When I picked up this book I expected an interesting animal story, and instead found an absolutely engaging page-turner about a wonderful young woman's search for herself in Wyoming. I read it cover to cover in a day-- this is one of the best books I have read in years.The story of the author's unexpected fork in the road-- the choice to allow a tiny baby coyote to be drowned or to take on its care for life-- and the path she took illuminates so many things about her, and about all of us as
The author, Shreve Stockton, is a young woman who was moving from San Francisco to New York and fell in love with Wyoming during that part of the trip. So she moves to a small, rural town in Wyoming and gradually integrates into the rural Wyoming life. Along the way a friend, who is a paid coyote hunter, gives her an infant coyote pup. Stockton ends up raising the coyote and the book focuses on that but also includes her descriptions of the rural lifestyle, her teaching experience, her
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