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ISBN: 0-525-94886-4. Hard cover. 274 pages. 9.5" x 6.25" x 1". (19) black and white pictures. Copyright July 2005. Published by Penguin Group (USA) Inc. (Inside the Book Jacket) In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild and Peter Jenkin's Looking for Alaska, a riveting adventure story of one man's passion to understand and protect the grizzly bear - and his last foolhardy, violent encounter with one Ursus arctos horribilis, commonly known as the grizzly or brown bear, is on e of the most feared animals on the planet. As its most outspoken protector, Timothy Treadwell tirelessly sought to overturn the perception of grizzlies as dangerously aggressive. It was therefore a media sensation when in October 2003 Treadwell and his girlfriend were fatally mauled by a bear in Alaska's Katmai National Park, the first such attack in the park in eighty-five years. The horrifying audiotape of Treadwell's final, frantic screams begged the question: How could this happen? In the Grizzly Maze, Nick Jans, who for years has written expertly and lyrically about the Alaskan wilderness, ventures to answer this question. Based on exclusive access to the killing site and his own and others' expert knowledge of Alaskan bears, Jans plots out Treadwell's final expedition and encounter with the grizzly. In doing so, Jans provides a moving and complex portrait of the man known as the "Bear Whisperer," whose controversial ideas earned him the scorn of hunters, the adoration of some animal lovers, and the skepticism of naturalists. The Grizzly Maze also offers a definitive, close-up look at bears, bear behavior, and our complicated relationship with them. Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Into the Maze
The Birth of Treadwell
Lifeguard to the Bears
Fifteen Minutes and Change
The Grizzly Maze
The Last Trip Out There
Final Darkness
The World of Fears
Bear 141
Monkey Pajamas
A Mighty Lightning Rod
What Sort of Man....
The Skulls That Are Mine
Grizzly People
Treadwell's Bears
Afterword: The Beast of Nightmare
A Selected Bibliography with Annotations
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