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The Wolf Children: Fact or Fantasy?
MacLean, Charles
Allen Lane, 1977
ISBN 9780140050530
FeralChildren.com says Through extensive research into hundreds of original documents, Maclean sets out to resolve whether Kamala and Amala are genuine feral children or a hoax. A thorough and detailed history of Singh and the wolf girls with plenty of photos.
Amazon customer review © 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!
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!
Amazon customer review © This is the story of Amala and Kamala, the two girls raised by a she-wolf in northeastern India, until they were reclaimed by humanity throught the efforts of a remarkable Anglican missionary who was also a native Indian, and his equally remarkable Indian wife, who struggled to run an orphanage in northeastern India, and whose diaries can now be found on the Internet. The book is a well researched and well written summary of the facts available to, and discovered by, the author in the 1970s, but could still be the best book on the subject for the general reader. He does not present all of his research in detail, but summarizes it all in narrative form, as he explains, to make it more readable. The last fourth of the book concerns how the story came to the attention of the world. There was always a lot of scientific concern about the truth of it, and the author clearly understands why: it is simply an nearly incredible story. Nevertheless, through an apparently thorough and careful investigation, he managed to satisfy his own skeptical mind that it was true. What we will never know, and can only imagine, is the exact nature of the life of the two girls with the wolves -- and inevitably as wolves themselves, insofar as such a life was possible for human children.
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