Do you know what the wolf totem is? A spiritual power of one to ten, to a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand. It protects the great life in the pasture. The sky has always seen that the great life governs the small life, that the life of the sky governs the life of humans. If you truly honor the wolf totem, you must support the sky and the earth, nature and the great life of the pasture, you must continue to fight as long as there is even one wolf.

In the late 1960s, Chinese student Chen Zhen volunteers in an isolated nomadic camp in Mongolia. There he discovers a world he had never imagined: an idyllically simple life based on the eternal battle between wolves and humans, in a continuous struggle for survival.

A wonderful portrait of a place and a culture that no longer exists, sketched in a book that surprised, moved, and challenged readers around the world.