City Wolves - by Dorris Heffron (Paperback)

About the Book

Meg Wilkinson, Canada's first woman veterinarian, leaves her Halifax practice after a tragedy in her private life and heads to Yukon Territory, drawn by the sled dogs she has come to admire. When she arrives in Dawson City in 1897, the exciting and tumultuous gold rush is just getting underway.

Book Synopsis

Meg Wilkinson, Canada's first woman veterinarian, leaves her Halifax practice after a tragedy in her private life and heads to Yukon Territory, drawn by the sled dogs she has come to admire. When she arrives in Dawson City in 1897, the exciting and tumultuous gold rush is just getting underway.

Review Quotes

"Historical romance, pioneering feminism, Inuit spirit guides, wolves, dogs, real people mingling with fictional ones, a fresh take on the Klondike gold rush...this is entertainment. An indomitable heroine takes city wolves into the wilderness and makes them howl. I for one could not stop listening."
--Ken McGoogan, Pierre Berton History Prize winner, author of "Fatal Passage and Race to the Polar Sea"

"Dorris Heffron has illuminated a fascinating and little-known aspect of human behaviour -- the degree to which humans have modeled their social structure on that of wolves -- and turned it into story. "City Wolves" is a wonderful blend of fiction and history, natural and unnatural: high art indeed!"
--Wayne Grady, Naturalist, author of "The Nature of Coyotes"

""City Wolves" takes the truth of good biography and runs with it creatively into a gripping narrative...meticulous research leads Heffron to give life to a neglected theory about who really first discovered the gold t