The Grizzly Maze

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 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. . “Intensely imagistic artfully controlled prose . . . behind the building tension of Treadwell’s path to oblivion a stunning landscape looms.”—Newsday