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Violence
Some
Violence in the wilderness; wolf research setting; the isolation creates psychological tension
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The specific claustrophobia of winter isolation on a remote island; the long-running wolf study as a context for examining what scientists choose to see and not see
What this book is about
National Park Ranger Anna Pigeon joins a wolf research team on Isle Royale in Lake Superior — the remote island accessible only by floatplane in winter, where a population of wolves and moose has been studied for decades in the world's longest-running predator-prey study. The research team has its own internal tensions, and the winter isolation intensifies them. Nevada Barr's sixteenth Anna Pigeon novel uses the wolf research setting to examine the specific ethics of scientific observation and what happens when the observers have reasons of their own to control what is found.
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sixteenth Anna Pigeon novel by Nevada Barr; Isle Royale wolf research setting
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