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

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/17/2003
ISBN: 9780393058079
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.38w x 1.02d
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist
Award: Colorado Book Award - Winner

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2003 pg. 60
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2003 pg. 1107
Publishers Weekly 09/22/2003 pg. 95
Library Journal 11/01/2003 pg. 118
Booklist 11/15/2003 pg. 551
Library Journal 03/01/2004 pg. 40
Library Journal 08/01/2003