Down from the Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear Contributor(s): Andrews, Bryce (Author) |
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ISBN: 1328972453 ISBN-13: 9781328972453 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2019 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Nature | Animals - Bears - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats - Mountains |
Dewey: 599.784 |
LCCN: 2018033157 |
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" (0.85 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
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Publisher Description: "Andrews' 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 Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition's Mountain Environment & Natural History Award 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 The grizzly is one of North America's few remaining large predators. Their range is diminished, but they're spreading across the West again. Descending into valleys where once they were king, bears find the landscape they'd known for eons utterly changed by the new most dominant animal: humans. As the grizzlies approach, the people of the region are wary, at best, of their return. In searing detail, award-winning writer, Montana rancher, and conservationist Bryce Andrews tells us about one such grizzly. Millie is a typical mother: strong, cunning, fiercely protective of her cubs. But raising those cubs--a challenging task in the best of times--becomes ever harder as the mountains change, the climate warms and people crowd the valleys. There are obvious dangers, like poachers, and subtle ones as well, like the corn field that draws her out of the foothills and sets her on a path toward trouble and ruin. That trouble is where Bryce's story intersects with Millie's. It is the heart of Down from the Mountain, a singular drama evoking a much larger one: an entangled, bloody collision between two species in the modern-day West, where the shrinking wilds force man and bear into ever closer proximity. |
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. |