The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado - Hardcover

Bass, Rick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395717590 ISBN 13: 9780395717592

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1995

Synopsis

Author and naturalist Rick Bass searches with a veteran grizzly expert and a biologist for proof that the grizzly bear still inhabits the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, in spite of being hunted nearly to extinction. In the process, he describes the dangers and clues on the trail of the grizzly bear as well as the mystery and beauty of the creature who has inspired such a wealth of lore, not to mention terror. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

Review:

"about striving to find something lost in ourselves, something that can be supplied only by solitude and wilderness and the presence of creatures more powerful and self-assured than we are" The Washington Post

About the Author:

RICK BASS's fiction has received O. Henry Awards, numerous Pushcart Prizes, awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and his memoir, Why I Came West, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0395717590
• ISBN 13: 9780395717592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 239