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

by Jans, Nick

• ISBN13: 9780452287358
• ISBN10: 0452287359
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-31
• Publisher: Plume

Summary

With a new introduction on Werner Herzog’s 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 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

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix Into the Maze	p. 1
The Birth of Treadwell	p. 10
Lifeguard to the Bears	p. 24
Fifteen Minutes and Change	p. 46
The Grizzly Maze	p. 59
The Last Trip Out There	p. 76
Final Darkness	p. 92
The World of Fears	p. 106
Bear	p. 141 117
Monkey Pajamas	p. 137
A Mighty Lightning Rod	p. 148
What Sort of Man	p. 159
The Skulls That Are Mine	p. 175
Grizzly People	p. 192
Treadwell+s Bears	p. 209
Afterword: The Beast of Nightmare	p. 220
A Selected Bibliography with Annotations	p. 253
Index	p. 259
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