More than a half-century ago the Canadian Wildlife Service assigned the naturalist Farley Mowat to investigate why wolves were killing arctic caribou. Mowat's account of the summer he lived in the frozen tundra alone -- studying the wolf population and developing a deep affection for the wolves (who were of threat to caribou or man) and for a friendly Inuit tribe kwn as the Ihalmiut ( People of the Deer ) -- is a work that has become cherished by generations of readers, an indelible record of the myths and magic of wild wolves.