The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature

by David Baron

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393340303
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/04/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	468,941
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

David Baron, an award-winning journalist and author of The Beast in the Garden, is a former science correspondent for NPR and former science editor for the public radio program The World. An incurable umbraphile whose passion for chasing eclipses began in 1998, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.