Star author packs in Highland visit before city wolf show
From the Evening News, 26 th May 2000
Nicholas Evans, the author of The Horse Whisperer, watches wolves at Highland Wildlife Park. Picture: Ken Macpherson
THE author of the Horse Whisperer, whose book was made into a film starring Robert Redford, is tonight opening an Edinburgh Zoo exhibition about wolves.
Writer Nicholas Evans has a passion for wolves and his most recent book, The Loop, tells the story of a biologist sent to a Montana ranching town who ends up protecting a pack of wolves from people determined to wipe them out.
Mr Evans was set to visit a pack of 12 wolves at the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig, near Aviemore, before returning to Edinburgh for tonight's opening.
The exhibition, entitled Wolf, features photographs and print images by Cumbrian-based artists Robert Howie Smith and Janet Lambert. Mr Smith spent several weeks as a volunteer getting to know the Highland park wolves.
Mr Evans said: "There are so many misconceptions about wolves.
"In 200 years there's not a single recorded incident in America of a wolf harming a human being. With publication of The Loop there's talk of reintroducing wolves to the Scottish Highlands.
"I understand the prejudice against that, but if there's enough natural prey for wolves, sheep probably would be unmolested. In America there's a compensation body called Defenders of Wild Life, and if a farmer proves his sheep has been killed by a wolf he gets the full market price."
The free exhibition will run from tomorrow until June 30 in Edinburgh Zoo's gallery.
© Edinburgh Evening News, 26 th May, 2000
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