Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears

Jans, Nick

ISBN 10: 0525948864 / ISBN 13: 9780525948865

Published by Dutton, New York, 2005

About this Item

Signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Blue paper covered boards quarter bound with black cloth. Silver lettering on spine. Near fine condition with very slight bumping to edges. Pictorial dust jacket with blue and white lettering on cover and spine. Jacket is not price clipped. Some shelf wear to edges; mild soiling. Binding is tight. Small brown stains on front and rear endpapers, otherwise interior is clean. Includes a section of black and white plates. This book tells the story of Timothy Treadwell, a man whose quest to change the perception of grizzly bears being dangerously aggressive ended with him being fatally mauled by a bear in Alaska's Katmai National Park.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears
• Publisher: Dutton, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525948864
• ISBN 13: 9780525948865
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

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 in October 2003, 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. BACKCOVER: “Intensely imagistic, artfully controlled prose . . . behind the building tension of Treadwell’s path to oblivion, a stunning landscape looms.”
—Newsday

About the Author

Nick Jans is a contributing editor for Alaska magazine and a member of USA Today’s Board of Editorial Contributors. He has written for Rolling Stone, Backpacker, and the Christian Science Monitor. His books include Tracks of the Unseen: Meditations on Alaska Wildlife, Landscape, and Photography; A Place Beyond: Finding Home in Arctic Alaska; and The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska’s Inupiat Eskimos.