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Title: The Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and Nature by David Baron ISBN: 0-393-05807-7 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: If You Love This Planet, Read This Book!
Comment: A friend of mine heard an interview with author David Baron on NPR. What impressed him was how balanced and objective his view was. My friend immediately bought two copies of The Beast In The Garden, one for himself and one for me. The whole question of how humans can live with wildlife is a highly charged emotional issue on both sides. As I made my way deep into the bowels of this book I realized how utterly ignorant and naive I was. The author manages to examine the story of human interactions with magnificent but hungry wild animals with extraordinary intelligence . He conveys his passion for Nature at the same time that he maintains his objectivity.
Shortly after I finished reading this book, a mountain lion killed 35-year old cyclist Mark Reynolds whose body was found after another cougar attack along a popular trail in the Orange County Foothills. The lion had dragged Reynolds off the trail and his body went undetected for many hours. The cougar, protective of its partially buried prey, later mauled another passing biker. Anne Hjelle, 30, was rescued by her riding companion (who hung onto her leg) and other trail bikers as she was being dragged by the head into the brush.
My 35 year old son and his girlfriend also ride in areas where they have seen mountain lions and now they are reading this book. It is clear that we human predators will need to change our habits if we wish to share the landscape with other highly evolved predators. You will see the world with wiser eyes after reading this book!
Suza Francina, former mayor of Ojai, California, spokesperson for sustainable lifestyles and author, The New Yoga for People Over 50 and Yoga and the Wisdom of Menopause
Rating: 5
Summary: The Beast in the Garden
Comment: One of the most enlightening books I've ever read! A coworker bought the book for me after hearing David Barons interview on NPR. I am an environmental activist and always believed the animals have to come first because they were here first but David makes a great case for careful scientific management of wildlife. This a like a dectective story where the author gathered and presents all the evidence(not just the stuff that supports his case). He has an opinion but doesn't shove it down your throat. If you want to be more educated about environmental issues read this book. Even if you don't agree with the author you'll definitely learn something! Fascinating situation that I had never heard of until reading this book. The authors case was supported once again when I saw the news about the cougar attacks in California while reading the book! More attacks are inevitable as you'll see when you've read this outstanding book!!!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book
Comment: I found this book to be a very lucid account of how Man and the Cougar have changed over the past 100 years. Baron gives the best argument I've come across to explain the growing number of attacks by Cougars on humans.
Human developement, but more so the change in our feelings towards wildlife has created a new ecotone that has allowed the Cougars numbers increase and to lose "respect" for humans. For the last 34 years Cougars have not been hunted in Calif. and I belive that this has caused cats to lose there fear of both man and dogs. Great book well worth the time and money.
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Title: Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen ISBN: 0393051404 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 08 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Cat Attacks: True Stories and Hard Lessons from Cougar Country by Jo Deurbrouck, Dean Miller ISBN: 1570612897 Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Cougar Attacks: Encounters of the Worst Kind by Kathy Etling ISBN: 158574221X Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Soul Among Lions: The Cougar As Peaceful Adversary by Harley G. Shaw, David E. Brown ISBN: 0816520844 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Shadow Cat: Encountering the American Mountain Lion by Susan Ewing, Elizabeth Grossman ISBN: 1570611548 Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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