The Dog Master : A Novel of the First Dog (Hardcover)

from tehanu

A beautiful story not just hidden within another story but a story hidden in a maze of stories within a story. I really wanted to love this book but the author/editor made it such hard work to follow the plot that I can't recommend it to anyone except die-hard dog lovers. I won't even mention wha...

from Sonya_W

This book was not the worst I've ever read, but it really wasn't my cup of tea, either. Another reviewer likened it to a Paleolithic soap opera, which I think is apt. It certainly wasn't the book I was expecting / hoping to read, which was more a fictionalized origin story of human doggo friendsh...

from Mwsberg

"The domestication of wolves took place in the most dramatic and dangerous time in human history--the dawn of the last Ice Age. Yet humans almost certainly had no comprehension of the scope of the devastation coming their way--they knew local weather, not global climate. The speed of the ice's ad...

from billsearth

I found many of the situations not agreeing with archaeology or with biology. For example there are and have never been any colonial owls nesting on cliffs or elsewhere,except for the little burrowing owls who nest in flat ground within flat regions. I found too many typos for a public book to ha...

from DeltaQueen50

The Dog Master by W. Bruce Cameron is a encompassing epic that totally swept me up in the story. Set in the Paleolithic era the reader is gifted with three storylines that eventually converge. This is the story of the first man who thought to tame a wolf and how that taming came about. A she-wolf...