Author : Jo Deurbrouck
Publisher : Falcon Guides
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,92 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Human-animal relationships
ISBN : 9780762743155
In the 1990s, three times as many people were attacked my mountain lions as had been attacked in the previous century. These shy predators must kill to survive, and in areas where their habitats are shrinking, human-cat encounters are on the rise. Stalked by a Mountain Lion tells the stories of attacks and strange encounters between cougars and people and offers a sensitive look at the often complex issues surrounding their interactions.
Author : Jo Deurbrouck
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Puma
ISBN : 9781570612893
The same number of mountain lion attacks has occurred in the past 10 years as had occured in the preceding 100 years. What's happening? Cat Attacks is the first unflinching look at what happens when mountain lions and people cross paths. The riveting stories of heroes and victims tell readers what to fear, what to ignore and what to expect when encountering North America's most effective large predator.
Author : Harley G. Shaw
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,8 MB
Release : 2000-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816520848
Skilled predators prized by hunters and cursed by ranchers, mountain lions are the wild soul of the American West. Now a wildlife biologist brings you nose to nose with the elusive cougar. Harley Shaw shares dramatic stories culled from his years of studying mountain lions, separating fact from myth regarding their habits while raising serious questions about mankind's relationship with this commanding creature. "Most of us move into the country because we love wildlife," writes Shaw. "But none of us will tolerate having our pets or children eaten. . . . When lion/human encounters occur, the lion (or bear, or wolf) always ultimately loses." Soul among Lions offers us a chance to consider the true meaning of that loss.
Author : Kathleen Hale
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0802146910
In this provocative essay collection, the author “leans into her roles as both victim and predator [with] prose that’s casual and cool and often funny” (The New York Times). In six wide-ranging essays, Kathleen Hale traces some of the most treacherous fault lines in modern America—from sexual assault to Internet trolling, from environmental illness to our own animal nature. From hunting wild hogs in Florida to a standoff with an anonymous blogger, Hale takes no prisoners and fears no subject. “First I Got Pregnant. Then I Decided to Kill the Mountain Lion” recounts the month Hale spent tracking a wild cat in the Hollywood Hills while pregnant. “Prey” tells the troubling story of her sexual assault as a freshman in college. Through these and other essays, Hale wields razor-sharp wit, deep empathy, and daring honesty, even in detailing some of the most difficult moments of her life.
Author : Keith McCafferty
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525562079
"Keith McCafferty is a top-notch, first-rate, can't-miss novelist." --C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author In Montana's Gravelly Range, paw prints and a single whisker discovered at a scene of horrific violence suggest a woman had been attacked and carried away by a mountain lion. Sheriff Martha Ettinger employs her fiancé, sometimes-detective Sean Stranahan, to put a name to the gnawed bones comprising all that is left of the body. The woman's is the first of several deaths that Sean suspects are not as easily explained as they appear. . As a reign of terror grips the Madison Valley, blood in the tracks will lead him from the river below to the snow-covered ridge tops, as Sean finds himself on his most adventurous and dangerous quest yet. For as he comes closer to unearthing the secret shared by the dead and missing, the tracks he is following will turn, and the hunter becomes the hunted.
Author : James Lasdun
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374708908
A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate in the crucible of the digital age. Give Me Everything You Have chronicles author James Lasdun's strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled "verbal terrorist," who began trying, in her words, to "ruin him." Hate mail, online postings, and public accusations of plagiarism and sexual misconduct were her weapons of choice and, as with more conventional terrorist weapons, proved remarkably difficult to combat. James Lasdun's account, while terrifying, is told with compassion and humor, and brilliantly succeeds in turning a highly personal story into a profound meditation on subjects as varied as madness, race, Middle East politics, and the meaning of honor and reputation in the Internet age.
Author : David Baron
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0393340309
The true tale of an edenic Rocky Mountain town and what transpired when a predatory species returned to its ancestral home. When, in the late 1980s, residents of Boulder, Colorado, suddenly began to see mountain lions in their yards, it became clear that the cats had repopulated the land after decades of persecution. Here, in a riveting environmental fable that recalls Peter Benchley's thriller Jaws, journalist David Baron traces the history of the mountain lion and chronicles Boulder's effort to coexist with its new neighbors. A parable for our times, The Beast in the Garden is a scientific detective story and a real-life drama, a tragic tale of the struggle between two highly evolved predators: man and beast.
Author : Sandi Ault
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101014733
The Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author returns with BLM agent Jamaica Wild. In the midst of tracking a wounded mountain lion, Jamaica is forced to seek refuge in an old abandoned Indian School when a snowstorm hits. Exploring, Jamaica discovers the desecrated body of an elderly Anglo woman, frozen on the floor. After the storm, the FBI takes over the murder investigation, but Jamaica remains haunted by the frozen woman. As the dead of winter settles, arctic temperatures threaten the survival of the mountain lions-but time reveals that there is something far more dangerous tracking Jamaica...
Author : Jim Williams
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781938340727
An Expert's View of the Big Cat's Fight to Find Its Wild
Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 29,92 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Hunting
ISBN :
