Andrews Bryce - Down From The Mountain The Life And Death Of A Grizzly Bear - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life death and cubs and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West. An "ode to wildness and wilderness" (Outside Magazine) Down from the Mountain tells the story of one grizzly in the changing Montana landscape. Millie was cunning a fiercely protective mother to her cubs. But raising those cubs in the mountains was hard as the climate warmed and people crowded the valleys. There were obvious dangers like poachers and subtle ones like the corn field that drew her into sure trouble. That trouble is where award - winning writer farmer and conservationist Bryce Andrews's story intersects with Millie s. In this "welcome and impressive work" he shows how this drama is "the core of a major problem in the rural American West the disagreement between large predatory animals and invasive modern settlers an entangled collision where the shrinking wilds force human and bear into ever closer proximity (Barry Lopez). Andrews's wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts Welcome and impressive work. Barry Lopez Don't miss Bryce Andrews powerful new memoir Holding Fire.
Title: Down From The Mountain The Life And Death Of A Grizzly Bear
Author(s): Andrews Bryce
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780358299271
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/14/2020