| The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature Contributor(s): Baron, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393058077 ISBN-13: 9780393058079 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2003 Annotation: In a riveting environmental fable that recalls Peter Benchley's thriller "Jaws," a journalist traces the return of the mountain lion to Colorado and chronicles Boulder's effort to coexist with its new neighbors. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Animals - Mammals - Nature | Animals - Wildlife |
| Dewey: 599.752 |
| LCCN: 2003016111 |
| Physical Information: 1.02" H x 6.38" W x 9.61" (1.31 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Colorado - Locality - Boulder-Longmont, Colorado |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When, in the late 1980s, residents of Boulder, Colorado, suddenly began to see mountain lions in their yards, it became clear that the cats had repopulated the land after decades of persecution. Here, in a riveting environmental fable that recalls Peter Benchley's thriller Jaws, journalist David Baron traces the history of the mountain lion and chronicles Boulder's effort to coexist with its new neighbors. A parable for our times, The Beast in the Garden is a scientific detective story and a real-life drama, a tragic tale of the struggle between two highly evolved predators: man and beast. |
Contributor Bio(s): Baron, David: - David Baron, an award-winning journalist and author of The Beast in the Garden, is a former science correspondent for NPR and former science editor for the public radio program The World. An incurable umbraphile whose passion for chasing eclipses began in 1998, he lives in Boulder, Colorado. |