SEASONS OF THE COYOTE edited by...

SEASONS OF THE COYOTE edited by Philip L. Harrison (Tehabi/HarperCollins West: $ ?? ; 114 pp., paperback original). Intelligent, adaptable and persistent, the coyote inhabits virtually every corner of North America, despite ill-advised campaigns to exterminate it. The brief essays in this attractive volume extol the cleverness and scroungy beauty of the coyote and recap the important place it occupies in Amerindian mythologies. The color pictures are striking and exceptionally crisp, but the decision to print the text on shaded paper makes the book hard to read.