{"product_id":"coyote-america-by-dan-flores-9780465093724","title":"Coyote America","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith its uncanny night howls, unrivalled ingenuity, and amazing resilience, the coyote is the stuff of legends. In Indian folktales, it often appears as a deceptive trickster or a sly genius. But legends don't come close to capturing the incredible survival story of the coyote.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs soon as Americans—especially white Americans—began ranching and herding in the West, they started working to destroy the coyote. Despite campaigns of annihilation employing poisons, gases, helicopters, and engineered epidemics, coyotes didn't just survive; they thrived, expanding across the continent from Anchorage, Alaska, to New York's Central Park. In the war between humans and coyotes, coyotes have won hands-down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoyote America\u003c\/i\u003e is both an environmental and a deep natural history of the coyote. It traces both the five-million-year-long biological story of an animal that has become the \"wolf\" in our backyards and its cultural evolution from a preeminent spot in Native American religions to the hapless foil of the Road Runner. A deeply American tale, the story of the coyote in the American West and beyond is a sort of Manifest Destiny in reverse, with a pioneering hero whose career holds up an uncanny mirror to the successes and failures of American expansionism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn illuminating biography of this extraordinary animal, \u003ci\u003eCoyote America\u003c\/i\u003e isn't just the story of an animal's survival—it is one of the great epics of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854415483116,"sku":"9780465093724","price":52.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780465093724.jpg?v=1759240689","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/coyote-america-by-dan-flores-9780465093724","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}