The Last Wilderness (Seekers #4)

If you've kept up with this series you have to love the characters of Toklo, Kallik, and Lusa. Ujurak is also interesting due to the fact that he's alternately completely innocent and wise. If it didn't have such strong political overtones this would be a great adventure story with great characters.

However it seemed like this book was an attack on capitalism and not so much urging environmental stewardship. The good flat faces are nonwhite Native Alaskans, and the bad flat faces are white people. This seems very racist to me. Even though the authors are English and obviously make money from capitalism, it seems like they have a resentment toward capitalist white people. It's really quite strange that this would be the case but it's also very blatant.

I do think it's important to "save the wild", but demonizing white people and capitalism shouldn't be necessary for that.

I would have been much happier if the book would have promoted environmentally responsible resource use, rather than demonizing the fact that humans need energy and use natural resources at all.

It's precisely because this is so well-written, with Toklo, Kallik, Lusa, and Ujurak being so lovable, that this book can be damaging and promote racism. It's the white capitalists that supposedly keep Toklo from having his own territory where he can live like a brown bear should, it's white capitalists that are making Kallik's ice disappear (no mention of China, Mexico, or other developing nations contributing to global warming?), and it's white capitalists who are "killing the wild", forcing the spirits to send dreams to Lusa and Ujurak.

I'm a Warriors fan but at least in Warriors you aren't bashed over the head with overt racism and anti-capitalism.

loved the whole series !

I bought most of the series for my daughter. She had started the series by checking out book 1 and discovering that they didn't have book 2 and the rest were wait listed. I bought 2-6 for her to give to her school library after she has read them.

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My child loves these novels. Can not get enough of it and had read it multiple times

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This book was given to my grandson. It came in great shape and he enjoyed reading it.

I was really shocked when I saw this book out in stores - and the fact that I hadn't read it yet. So when I saw it sitting on the shelf in a bookstore, I bought it immediately. Being an Erin Hunter fan, I knew what to expect - excellent detail, a perfect touch of action. And I got those things. While reading, I felt like I had been sucked into the book; that I was standing in front of the characters and watching every single thing happen in front of my very eyes. Whenever I was able to peel my eyes off the words, I discovered that, no, those things in the story hadn't actually happened. Whoever loves Erin Hunter's books or animals, this is for you.