{"title":"Nick Jans","description":"Nick Jans is a contributing editor for Alaska magazine and a member of USA Today's Board of Editorial Contributors. He has written for Rolling Stone, Backpacker, and the Christian Science Monitor. His books include Tracks of the Unseen: Meditations on Alaska Wildlife, Landscape, and Photography; A Place Beyond: Finding Home in Arctic Alaska; and The Last Light Breaking: Living Among Alaska's Inupiat Eskimos.","products":[{"product_id":"the-grizzly-maze-timothy-treadwells-fatal-obsession-with-alaskan-bears-paperback","title":"The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwell's Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a new introduction on Werner Herzog's film entitled \u003ci\u003eThe Grizzly Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimothy Treadwell, self-styled \"bear whisperer\" dared to live among the grizzlies, seeking to overturn the perception of them as dangerously aggressive animals. When he and his girlfriend were mauled, it created a media sensation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Grizzly Maze\u003c\/i\u003e, Nick Jans, a seasoned outdoor writer with a quarter century of experience writing about Alaska and bears, traces Treadwell's rise from unknown waiter in California to celebrity, providing a moving portrait of the man whose controversial ideas and behavior earned him the scorn of hunters, the adoration of animal lovers and the skepticism of naturalists. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Intensely imagistic, artfully controlled prose . . . behind the building tension of Treadwell's path to oblivion, a stunning landscape looms.\"\u003ci\u003e--Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51290462355679,"sku":"9780452287358","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/T-MzTvN64z9780452287358.webp?v=1787993529"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/nick-jans.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}