| The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears Contributor(s): Jans, Nick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0452287359 ISBN-13: 9780452287358 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2006 Annotation: A definitive look at man's conflicted relationship with bears, this is the story of Timothy Treadwell's obsession with Alaska, his foolhardy quest to understand Alaskan brown bears, and his violent death in their jaws. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers - Nature | Animals - Bears - Biography & Autobiography | Environmentalists & Naturalists |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004030920 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.3" W x 7.94" (0.57 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Geographic Orientation - Alaska |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 105553 Reading Level: 8.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 15.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With a new introduction on Werner Herzog's film entitled The Grizzly Man Timothy Treadwell, self-styled "bear whisperer" dared to live among the grizzlies, seeking to overturn the perception of them as dangerously aggressive animals. When he and his girlfriend were mauled, it created a media sensation. In The Grizzly Maze, Nick Jans, a seasoned outdoor writer with a quarter century of experience writing about Alaska and bears, traces Treadwell's rise from unknown waiter in California to celebrity, providing a moving portrait of the man whose controversial ideas and behavior earned him the scorn of hunters, the adoration of animal lovers and the skepticism of naturalists. "Intensely imagistic, artfully controlled prose . . . behind the building tension of Treadwell's path to oblivion, a stunning landscape looms."--Newsday |