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

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Great Book That Demonstrates What we Should NOT Do In Bear Country
my hikes will never be the same.......
A Riveting love story of a man and the bears he adored
"Animal Protection" Gone Awry
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The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears
Nick Jans
Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
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Binding: Hardcover

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Death in the Grizzly Maze: The Timothy Treadwell Story
Among Grizzlies: Living with Wild Bears in Alaska
Grizzly Man
Bear Attacks of the Century: True Stories of Courage and Survival
Mark of the Grizzly: True Stories of Recent Bear Attacks and the Hard Lessons Learned

ASIN: 0525948864

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In the tradition of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild and Peter Jenkins's Looking for Alaska, a riveting adventure story of one man's passion to understand and protect the grizzly bear—and his last foolhardy, violent encounter with one

Ursus arctos horribilis, commonly known as the grizzly or brown bear, is one of the most feared animals on the planet. As its most outspoken protector, Timothy Treadwell tirelessly sought to overturn the perception of grizzlies as dangerously aggressive. It was therefore a media sensation when in October 2003 Treadwell and his girlfriend were fatally mauled by a bear in Alaska's Katmai National Park, the first such attack in the park in eighty-five years. The horrifying audiotape of Treadwell's final, frantic screams begged the question: How could this happen?

In The Grizzly Maze, Nick Jans, who for years has written expertly and lyrically about the Alaskan wilderness, ventures to answer this question. Based on exclusive access to the killing site and his own and other's expert knowledge of Alaskan bears, Jans plots out Treadwell's final expedition and encounter with the grizzly. In doing so, Jans provides a moving and complex portrait of the man known as the “Bear Whisperer,” whose controversial ideas earned him the scorn of hunters, the adoration of some animal lovers, and the skepticism of naturalists. The Grizzly Maze also offers a definitive, close-up look at bears, bear behavior, and our complicated relationship with them. It promises to be the blockbuster adventure read of the season.

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Great Book That Demonstrates What we Should NOT Do In Bear Country.......2007-03-04

There is no denying that this is an well written book, that does a great job of explaining the events that led up to Timothy Treadwell's death by the animals he loved.

Many people comment on how he lived his life the way he wanted and that alone justifies his actions.

In reality Timothy endangered not only himself but every other person who may have come in contact with these bears. He conditioned them not only to the presence of humans, but he reacted to them in ways that another person may not. In that case the bear could have interpreted the different action as hostile, and we would have had another mauled or dead person. Just like a visitor at Yellowstone who leaves open food contaniers at the campsite teaches bears that humans are a source of food, Timothy took away any natural fear the bears had of humans. That cost him his life.

Bears are wild animals, capable of killing. They should be respected and admired, but anything that conditions bears to the presence of people should be avoided.

This is a great book to try to understand Timothy but it is also a testament that wild, dangerous things need to be respected.

my hikes will never be the same..............2007-02-08

What a great book, informative, intersting and very well written.
Great job Nick!
As an avid hiker (from Juneau) I never even took a stick with me in the past and have seen many bears over the years.
Once I hiked a trail that had not been maintained anymore and ended up in a meadow full of recently used "nests" and plenty of poop.
I turned around and left, but never knew how dangerous this place could have been until I read the book.
I will change my (hiking-)ways for sure!
This book is a must for any outdoor enthusiast in bear country.

A Riveting love story of a man and the bears he adored.......2007-01-30

I loved this book. I am into nature reading and just stumbled across this book. It is a thriller to say the least and I read it in just a couple of days and could not put it down. Now I find myself seeking out everything I can find to read and hear about Timothy Treadwell. The author does a fairly neutral commentary on his story although slightly on the negative side. I have to say I did not come away with anger towards Timothy Treadwell, but a deep admiration of someone who did what he loved and tried to contribute something to the world. The information at the end regarding bear attacks I would think would be invaluable to persons that are wilderness people. It is very detailed and easy to understand. This book was very much an emotional experience for me and I am still grieving for Tim and Amy's deaths even though I never knew them. Even though I have no anger at all towards Tim, I do towards the so called overeducated experts who instead of rejecting Tim could have tried harder (in my opinion) to pull him in and help him. This might could have saved his life if he had gotten more support rather than just snobby rejection. I wish I could have met Timothy Treadwell. Although, I have doubts about his mental stability, he did have passion and that is rare in today's world.

"Animal Protection" Gone Awry.......2007-01-04

I found this book to be a real page-turner. Timothy Treadwell imagined himself to be a protector of bears, when in reality he was a great danger to them. He had access to a great deal of professional help and advice but unfortunately considered himself to be the greatest authority of all. Anyone who has the tiniest inkling to research bears versus human behavior would find out quickly that habituating bears to humans is anathema to both, at the least. View the DVD "Grizzly Man", and read this book to see a disturbed man destroying not only his own life but the life of another, innocent, human and possibly many bears.

Read with Confidence.......2006-09-05

Being a nature photographer but quite unfamiliar with bears, it was with great interest that I read comments in an on-line forum about Grizzly Man, Tim Treadwell, a Californian who went to Alaska for 13 summers to be with the brown bears on the Katmai coast. He raised California and Colorado money to fund these summers with the bears and foxes and subsequent programs for school kids. I had never heard of Timothy Treadwell or Amie H., the person who camped with him part of that final summer in 2003, until reading the threads and digging in to find out more. But the news of their hardships, ambiguous relationships with themselves and the bears, and subsequent shocking deaths as told by Alaskan writer-photographer Nick Jans in "The Grizzly Maze" was hard to put away. The book is a thriller, not only for what we learn about Ursus but that the reader, from a safe distance, can imagine the situation so clearly.

Nick Jans has a way with words. Whether morbid or having to do with human motivation, he cleanly lays out information but then turns around and presents the other sides or another plausible angle. There's all the possibility for a tangled mess in this maze, but the author leads clearly and we follow without getting lost. That's a neat feat. He has the ability to ask the questions we are thinking; yes, every one. Just as we're about to ask the next question, he asks it for us. It's as if Jans can read the reader.

For example, we wonder and he asks, "Why?" Who in their right minds would willingly camp at the crossroads of ancient bear trails, especially at the end of the season when bears were making final attempts to do what bears do, eat and den away in fat oblivion for the winter? On the other hand, given one's choices, who wouldn't exercise absolute ultimate control in their own life, living freely where and when possible, answering to few people until something better comes along? The answers are too complex; it may seem a bit too easy for some to say, "Only a crazy would do something like that."

The book is packed with facts, but beyond that, we watch with fascination as other humans go about picking up the pieces after the attack, literally and figuratively. Nick has the ability to let us see where we're going or why he took us somewhere. He knows some of us are plain stupid around bears but by the end of the book, we're with him for what he has to tell us about bears and those who seek them out. I never distrusted the author's style for leaving me hanging or hitting me over the head, so for those who really want to know all that is known about what went on there, you can read with confidence in "The Grizzly Maze."

Tales of obsession: Mystery Stories of Fatal Attractions and Deadly Desires

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Tales of obsession: Mystery Stories of Fatal Attractions and Deadly Desires
P. D. James , Ruth Rendell , Joan Hess , Lawrence Treat , Nancy Pickard , and Hig
Manufacturer: Signet
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0451179986

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Stephen Greenleaf is a very literate mystery writer
Home again
Interesting

Fatal Obsession
Stephen Greenleaf
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0385278861

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Stephen Greenleaf is a very literate mystery writer.......2004-07-01

The writing was so great in this book that I found myself reading sentences over again just to savor the language. This is my second Greenleaf book, and it is great to know that I have at least half a dozen more awaiting me (assuming the rest are as good as the two I've already read).

The plot involves Greenleaf's lawyer-turned-private investigator, Marsh Tanner, returning from San Francisco to his Iowa home town to discuss what to do with the family farm. Two of his brothers want to sell it (but to whom -- coal strip miner, wildcat oil company, neighboring farmer, the town?), whereas his sister wants to keep the land in the family and let her daughter and SIL farm it.

Not long after Marsh arrives in town, however, his bad-boy nephew is found hung -- although it appears to be suicide, Marsh has reason to question this verdict. He starts poking around, and in the course of poking around, learns a lot of things about the people of his home town that had been kept secret.

Greenleaf's characters are vivid and memorable, and I was kept guessing about what happened to nephew Billy until the final chapter -- but it all made sense.

Home again.......2002-08-09

I grew up in this town! It was amazing to picture the settings of my youth as the story unfolded.I look forward to Greenleaf's next Tanner book.

Interesting.......2000-09-06

Most interesting of the John Tanner series. Interesting plot twists and turns inter-woven with period settings. Great book to read as escapism. Kept my attention throughout and such that I didn't want to quit reading and looked for excuses to interrupt other activites to finish reading.

Fatal attraction: the white obsession with Indianness.: An article from: The Historian

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Fatal attraction: the white obsession with Indianness.: An article from: The Historian
Jennifer Dyar
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on June 22, 2003. The length of the article is 7955 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Fatal attraction: the white obsession with Indianness.
Author: Jennifer Dyar
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2003
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 65 Issue: 4 Page: 817(20)

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Fatal Obsession
D.B. Baylor
Manufacturer: Bantam
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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ASIN: 0553280627
Release Date: 1989-07-01

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Fatal Obsession
John Gary Dustin
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
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ASIN: 1413766676

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Jackie Harrington and Amber Starr are cousins who share a country home in Saxon City, which is located near Rutland, Vermont. The year is 2003, and the two of them become emotionally involved in an animal cruelty case. Their involvement is the beginning of their problems, and things only get worse. Jackie's relationships with men are fruitless while Amber tries to maintain control in her devious ways. As an antagonist, Amber's intimate ambitions are embedded in a conspiracy of the mind. The result is ominous and fateful. The characters are caught up in a tangled web of relationships and interactions, which ultimately breeds revenge and murder. Psychic illusions and trickery are the catalysts that fuel the fire in the dire sequence of events. Jake Stevens is a victim of Amber's selfish desires and has a falling out with Jackie. Through persistence he is able to rescue Jackie from her cousin's devious plot. Jake is set up in a double homicide for which he is falsely accused and serves time in prison. The story is a tragedy, yet the end is bittersweet. All is well that ends well. This dramatic novel is a page turner!

Fatal Flight: The Maltese Obsession With Killing Birds

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Well written book about an interesting subject
To all Birders and Animal lovers
painful but true
Loved Malta; Hated Bird Mistreatment
LIES , LIES & LIES

Fatal Flight: The Maltese Obsession With Killing Birds
Natalino Fenech
Manufacturer: Cimino Publishing Group
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1870948580

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Well written book about an interesting subject.......2003-02-25

The book is extremely well written with very good narrative and very good command of English. Anyone who is interested in hunting and conservation should read this book. Many hunters, including one reviewer, did not like the book because it has exposed their practices. I have visited Malta many times and witnessed the uncontrolled shooting of birds which is described so well in this book.
The author is evidently an authority in the subject and knows well what he is writing about. The book is well illustrated and all arguments in it are backed with evidence. No wonder the book has a series of reccomendations by Farley Mowat, Greenpeace, the RSPB as well as the British Game Conservancy, a hunters' orgainisation.
A great book by someone who had the guts to expose what goes on in the name of hunting. If there were more people like the author, the world would be a better place to live in.

To all Birders and Animal lovers.......2001-12-05

It is an invaluable book to the collection of all birders' library. It gives an in depth look about the history of hunting in Malta with tables of birds killed, trapped and taxidermy. With diagrams and graphs. Photos, illustrations, and much more.

It talks about the Government politics on hunting. A must buy if you want to learn more about the problem of hunting in the Maltese Islands and if you are interested to stop this evil of hunting and bird killing.

painful but true.......2001-06-15

A meticulously researched, documented and shcolarly work by one of Malta's best journalists. This book is painful but necessary to read for anyone who, like me, is Maltese, but I have to admit this is all true. There is a section of our fellow country-men who like killing birds and this book examines the phenomeon which shames out country to this day. It attempts to understand why people do it and the facts horrify the reader without the author having to embellish anything. It is a much needed work which Maltese will benefit from reading and discussing. Years from now no one will be able to say "we didn't know" !

Loved Malta; Hated Bird Mistreatment.......1999-06-17

I would only add, that if it were only hunting of birds by the Maltese, I would not be opposed. How many people in Malta-at least La Valetta- did I see who kept large quantities of birds emprisoned in cages. No, the maltese are not the only ones to do this...but per capita they do it more than any other population.

-Thomas Seay

LIES , LIES & LIES.......1999-02-18

This man has gone against his fellow country men.

He has disturbed the image of the Maltese hunters and lead people believe that Maltese hunters are the only people who shoot birds for food.

This is not a true factual presentation ! .

Daniel Debono

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FATAL OBSESSION
JOHN LESLIE EVANS
Manufacturer: AuthorHouse
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ASIN: 1418482986

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Set against the City Of Angels' glittering facade, multi-millionaire tabloid publisher, Aaron Rosemont is found dead, brutally murdered with gunshots to the head...A top movie actor's image is sabotaged by a smear campaign...False accusations threaten to derail a detective's brilliant career... An ill-fated love affair traps a woman in a web of conspiracy and murder. These are the shocking elements which lead LAPD homicide detectives, Joe Kellermann and Mike Rodriguez, into a labyrinth of greed, infidelity, obsession and murder-for-hire...

8 Titles By Stephen Greenleaf John Marshall Tanner Series (1-8) : 1. Grave Error 2. Death Bed 3. State's Evidence 4. Fatal Obsession 5. Beyond Blame 6. Toll Call 7. Book Case 8. Blood Type

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8 Titles By Stephen Greenleaf John Marshall Tanner Series (1-8) : 1. Grave Error 2. Death Bed 3. State's Evidence 4. Fatal Obsession 5. Beyond Blame 6. Toll Call 7. Book Case 8. Blood Type
Stephen Greenleaf
Manufacturer: various
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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8 Titles By Stephen Greenleaf John Marshall Tanner Series (1-8) : 1. Grave Error 2. Death Bed 3. State's Evidence 4. Fatal Obsession 5. Beyond Blame 6. Toll Call 7. Book Case 8. Blood Type. Eight mmpb books.

Fatal Obsession: The True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder

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Fatal Obsession: The True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder
Harold Russell
Manufacturer: Wynwood Pr
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0922066507

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