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An Expert's View of the Big Cat's Fight to Find Its Wild
List of contents
Foreword by Doug Chadwick
Prologue
Chapter 1 The Chase
Chapter 2 Finding the Wild
Chapter 3 The Front
Chapter 4 In the Beginning There Was Brazil
Chapter 5 Cows Not Condos
Chapter 6 The Crown of the Continent
Chapter 7 Oh Caribou
Chapter 8 Citizen Science
Chapter 9 There's a Lion in My Backyard
Chapter 10 Down South, Way Down South
Chapter 11 Welcome to the End of the World
Chapter 12 Altered Landscape of Dreams
Chapter 13 Ranching for Wildlife
Chapter 14 Pumas Below Aconcagua
Chapter 15 Pumas and Penguins at the End of the World
Chapter 16 Kodkods and Other Cool Cats
Chapter 17 Rewilding Patagonia
Chapter 18 Road to the Park at the Bottom of the World
Chapter 19 Arcilio the Puma Tracker
Chapter 20 A Trophic Cascade of Colorful Creatures
Chapter 21 Montanagonia
Epilogue
About the author
Jim Williams has spent his entire life finding the wild. Jim left the farm country of Iowa and spent his formative years as a young surf bum turned biology student in the Pacific Beach area of San Diego. He did his undergraduate work at San Diego State and Florida State Universities and his graduate studies at Montana State University in Bozeman. Jim is an award-winning, professionally certified wildlife biologist and has been working for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks for 25 years. Jim studied mountain lion ecology for his Master's Degree on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front and has been working on mountain lion and other wildlife conservation issues in various roles ever since. He has been working with biologists in Chile and Argentina on a variety of wildlife conservation projects. Jim and his wife Melora live and work in Montana's beautiful Flathead Valley just west of Glacier National Park.
Summary
An Expert's View of the Big Cat's Fight to Find Its Wild
Foreword
* $30,000 marketing and publicity budget
* 8 city author tour: New York; Boston; Dillon, MT; Seattle; San Francisco; Ventura, CA; Santa Monica; Cardiff, CA
* National radio interviews
* Features and reviews in wildlife and environmental publications
* Features in regional publications: Montana, Los Angeles
* Promotion on Patagonia.com, in-store, and in Patagonia catalogs
* Poster available
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Starred Review
"The author's passion and his firsthand knowledge of his subject make the narrative highly readable. . . . A handsome book that is well-balanced, instructive, and authoritative." -- Kirkus Reviews
