Grizzly Lessons

<i>Grizzly Lessons</i> is a survival guide to living in or visiting grizzly and wolf country. Fear physical danger financial hardship and animosity between neighbors are contemporary challenges of the everyday Western experience. </p><p>Stories of grizzly attacks reveal the remarkable psychological resilience of survivors. Most have returned to the wilderness with increased respect for bears and their love of nature intact. </p><p><i>Grizzly Lessons</i> avoids the polarizing rhetoric of the vitriolic wolf-bear debates. In contrast Blanchard presents accounts of coexistence from historical Native Americans to present-day ranchers hunters and other wilderness explorers. For those who are open to them the ultimate lessons of humility respect and interdependence are offered through grizzly encounters.