Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear Contributor(s): Andrews, Bryce (Author) |
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ISBN: 0358299276 ISBN-13: 9780358299271 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Nature | Animals - Bears - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Mountains |
Dewey: 599.784 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 7.6" (0.55 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "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 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). |
Contributor Bio(s): Andrews, Bryce: - BRYCE ANDREWS's debut, Badluck Way, was the 2014 winner of the Barnes & Nobel Discover Great New Writers Award, the 2014 Reading the West Book Award for nonfiction, the 2014 High Plains Book Award for both nonfiction and debut book, and a finalist for the 2014 Washington State Book Award. Born in 1983 and raised in Seattle, Washington, Bryce Andrews migrated east toward the American West. Having spent a decade in the high valleys of Montana, he remains fascinated by the complex and reciprocal relationship between humans, wild animals, and place. |