Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Wolves had had a bad press and philosopher Mark Rowlands sets the record straight in this marvellous marvellous book published by Granta. As a young man, Rowlands adopts a wolf cub and trains it to live with him, but more importantly he falls in love with this wild, intelligent, loyal creature and is inspired to explore the nature of wolves and how they differ from humans, and what it was about his time living with Brenin the Wolf that made Rowlands a better person. This is one of those books that bends the mind around corners it may never have gone before. I am still pondering Rowlands' analysis of the moral contract we make with animals.