The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with A

ISBN: 0452287359

Author: Jans, Nick

Condition: new

With a new introduction on Werner Herzogs film entitled The Grizzly ManTimothy 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 Treadwells 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 Treadwells path to oblivion, a stunning landscape looms.-Newsday