The Wolf Children

by Charles Maclean

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809097761
• ISBN13: 9780809097760
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Fascinating story

Lovers of the unexplained are in for a treat with this fascinating book. It traces the story of two Wolf-children that were discovered living with a family of wolves in a tribal region of India. They were adopted by an Indian missionary and named Amala and Kamala. The youngest of the two girls died months after their discovery and the eldest several years later. The Wolf-Children starts out as a travel story with extensive descriptions of nature. My advice is to just sit through the first two chapters. The fun starts when the wolfgirls are discovered. MacLean traces, through currently unavailable documentation of others, to what extent they were able to return to the human world. Both girls never were able to speak fluently. This book makes two things clear: A. The story of the two Indian girls is a true story. They were indeed raised by wolves. B. The biological preposition that mammals only accept siblings with the same suckling time as their own is clearly a fallacy. The book is informative, fascinating and well written. Highly recommended!