When Man Becomes Prey: Fatal Encounters With North America's Most Feared Predators Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Lyons Press (October 7, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0762791292
ISBN-13: 978-0762791293
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.4 x 8 inches
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I have never met Cat Urbigkit, but she contributes to a blog I follow (Stephen Bodio's Querencia) and she and I have communicated by email from time to time over the years. She knew that I had survived a bear attack and asked me to write a blurb for the book cover of "When Man Becomes Prey." Normally, this would mean an advance copy would be sent out that I could read, and then write my blurb accordingly. In this case, however, Cat was pressed for time, so she emailed me a copy of the manuscript. I was duly impressed with her writing, as I have always been over the years, and I wrote that in my blurb. What I didn't realize was how well and beautifully illustrated the final product would be. These are her photographs in the book, ladies and gentlemen, and hers alone, and that by itself is reason enough to buy this book. It's an extraordinary achievement.Beyond that, however, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. As cities and suburbs metastasize over the American landscape, more and more people live, wittingly or unwittingly, in close proximity to wildlife. Most of the time, this is a benign source of pleasure: deer strolling across your lawn and nibbling on your roses; woodchucks and squirrels making free with your vegetable garden; that sort of thing. But where prey animals go, predators will follow, and the inevitable confrontations between man and large carnivore will occur, with equally inevitable and unhappy results.What Cat does so well in "When Man Becomes Prey," is not only to point out the potential dangers, but to give the reader tools to recognize when things are sliding down from chance encounter to something more sinister and potentially deadly.
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