{"product_id":"books-down-from-the-mountain-by-bryce-andrews","title":"Down from the Mountain","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn \"ode to wildness and wilderness\" (Outside Magazine), Down from the Mountain tells the story of one grizzly in the changing Montana landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eMillie was cunning, a fiercely protective mother to her cubs. But raising those cubs in the mountains was hard, as the climate warmed and people crowded the valleys.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThere were obvious dangers, like poachers, and subtle ones, like the corn field that drew her into sure trouble. That trouble is where award-winning writer, farmer, and conservationist Bryce Andrews's story intersects with Millie's.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this \"welcome and impressive work\" he shows how this drama is \"the core of a major problem in the rural American West--the disagreement between large predatory animals and invasive modern settlers\"--an entangled collision where the shrinking wilds force human and bear into ever closer proximity (Barry Lopez).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Andrews's wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts . . . Welcome and impressive work.\"--Barry Lopez\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eDon't miss Bryce Andrews' powerful new memoir, Holding Fire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53508810277137,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780358299271.jpg?v=1778153908","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-down-from-the-mountain-by-bryce-andrews","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}