Wilderness ways

"Wilderness Ways" by William J. Long is a gathering of stories about animals in the wild from the 1800s. The book watches animals living freely in their habitats and shows how they act and what makes them special, without giving them human feelings. The writer looks at lots of different animals, pointing out what they naturally do and how they react to things, celebrating life in nature as beautiful and intricate. It starts with a foreword saying the writer wants to show animals as they really are. The collection begins by describing the woodland caribou, called Megaleep, focusing on what it looks like, how it lives, and how difficult it is to watch this hidden animal. The author reveals the push and pull between Megaleep's wild ways and people's wish to learn about and capture it through watching in the snowy lands it calls home, mixed with the author's own thoughts about the wonders and annoyances of studying wild animals up close.