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.
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This book's gift to its readers is a humbling, sobering, and necessary perspective on nature and on our inability to accomodate its terrible beauty.
--Richard Manning, author of Food's Frontier and Inside Passage
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DEADLY COUGAR ENCOUNTERS
A mountain lion gives birth under a porch in Boulder, Colorado. Another saunters into the parking garage of a swank hotel in Victoria, British Columbia. In the hills outside Sacramento, the remains of a jogger are found buried in a shallow grave, the story of her violent death told in a confusion of animal tracks and a blood-stained sun visor. A child is snatched on his way to school, his attacker a shadow in the alders, a fixed yellow stare crouching over the boy’s torn face.
Where western wilderness unravels into suburbia, at the intersection of a recovering species and a human population hungry for space, the common wisdom that cougars prefer to avoid people has given way to a harsher reality: Mountain lions move in the shadows of our homes, and a few of them hunt there. In this gripping look at the myths and realities of cougar and human interactions, Jo Deurbrouck takes us from the fieldwork of researchers to the near misses of those who faced down these predators and to those rare, horrifying moments when everything went wrong.
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Just change the title and BINGO! A NEW BOOK!,
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This review is from: Stalked by a Mountain Lion: Fear, Fact, and the Uncertain Future of Cougars in America (Paperback)
BEWARE THIS BOOK! If you've read "Cat Attacks: True Stories and Hard Lessons from Cougar Country," be advised that "Stalked by a Mountain Lion..." is the exact SAME BOOK, only with a new title and some (very few) updates provided. That's not to say it isn't a good book - it is, and I enjoyed it when I bought it the first time as "Cat Attacks..." But I am really unhappy at being fooled by a new title into buying the book twice. For that little manuever (not the content) I give this edition one nasty star.
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Well written book,
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This review is from: Stalked by a Mountain Lion: Fear, Fact, and the Uncertain Future of Cougars in America (Paperback)
I bought this book after my own "close encounter" with a mountain lion while running on a remote trail to try to understand the animal a little better and to try to understand why my encounter turned out the way it did (the lion walked away) as opposed to other encounters where serious injury or death is the result. The answers are less than satisfying, since no two encounters seem to follow the same pattern--there really is no pattern. This book is extremely well-written and sometimes more graphic than I might have liked, but very informative. I'll never run alone again.
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This review is from: Stalked by a Mountain Lion: Fear, Fact, and the Uncertain Future of Cougars in America (Paperback)
Wonderfully written book. I learned a great deal from this book that people and Parks don't tell you. For example, if someone is being attacked by a mountain lion (which by the way is not that common) and another person jumps the mountain lion to save the person being attacked the person rescuing the person attacked hardly ever gets hurt more than maybe a couple scratches. I found that kind of information very helpful. This book has great stories and truly inspiring entries. They are not all terrible but there are some stories that will rip your heart out.
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