The dog master

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Label

The dog master

Statement of responsibility

W. Bruce Cameron

Creator

• Cameron, W. Bruce
• trueCameron, W. Bruce

Author

• Cameron, W. Bruce

Subject

• Domestication -- Fiction
• FICTION / Historical
• Historical fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueHuman-animal relationships
• Human-animal relationships -- Fiction
• trueKinship-based society
• trueMen/women relations
• trueDogs -- Evolution
• Dogs -- Evolution -- Fiction
• Prehistoric peoples -- Fiction
• trueSocial behavior in animals
• Social behavior in animals -- Fiction
• trueWolves -- Domestication
• Wolves -- Fiction
• trueWolves as pets
• truePrehistoric humans

Genre

• Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction

Language

eng

Summary

• "Set against the most dramatic time in our species' history, The Dog Master tells the story of one tribe's struggle for survival and one extraordinary man's bond with a wolf-a friendship that changed mankind forever... Thirty thousand years ago, ice was storming the planet. Among the species forced out of the trees and onto the steppes by the advancing cold was modern man, who was both predator and prey. No stranger to the experiences that make us human-a mother's love and a father's betrayal, tribal war and increasing famine, political intrigue and forbidden love, joy and hope and devastating loss-our ancestors competed for scant resources in a brutal landscape. Mankind stood on the cold brink of extinction...but they had a unique advantage over other species, a new technology-domesticated wolves. Only a set of extraordinary circumstances could have transformed one of these fierce creatures into a hunting companion, a bodyguard, a solider, and a friend. The Dog Master by W. Bruce Cameron is an evocative glimpse of prehistory, an emotional coming of age saga, a thrilling tale of survival against all odds, and the exciting, imaginative story of the first dog"--
• "Thirty-thousand years ago, the fate of humanity rested on our ability to adapt to the last great glaciation, when ice stormed out of the north and forced us out of the trees and onto the steppes, where we were both hunter and hunted. Wolves, too, whose fortunes rise and fall with the health of the herds, could sense something different in the wind. When Silex, the young leader of the Wolfen tribe, brings tribute to a clever she-wolf, everything changes. The alpha wolf learns that in times of famine she can turn to man for food, a lesson passed on to her descendants"--

Storyline

• trueIntricately plotted

Tone

• trueDramatic

Assigning source

• Provided by publisher
• Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3603.A4535

LC item number

D57 2015

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult