18 must-read nonfiction books like Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear by Bryce Andrews

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Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

By: Bryce Andrews

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear by Bryce Andrews , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

By: Paul Greenberg , Paul Greenberg

4.06

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

In Four Fish, award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary jou… read more

Similar categories in Paul Greenberg's Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • nature
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"Humans seem to have an innate drive to master other creatures."

-Paul Greenberg, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

"When reeling a fish in to not simply feel “the power of wildness intimately but the same time recognize the right of that wildness to continue"

-Paul Greenberg, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

"Natural selection has a new aspect, one that is psychological denial. Such denial where the “individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, wh…"

-Paul Greenberg, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

"It was one of those rare moments where one has a vision of the scope of the wild ocean. Not just small cylinders firing to keep a tiny engine running, but rather the giant, massive gears of nature, e…"

-Paul Greenberg, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

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2. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History

By: Dan Flores

3.41

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific … read more

Similar categories in Dan Flores's Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • audiobook
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

3. Night of the Grizzlies

By: Jack Olsen

5.00

Format: None pages,

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  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • science
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4. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon

By: Steven Rinella

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the host of the Travel Channel's "The Wild Within." A hunt for the American buffalo--an advent… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rinella's American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • science
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • audiobook

5. The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest

By: M. Wylie Blanchet

3.41

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This is the fascinating true adventure story of a woman who packed her five children onto a twenty-… read more

Similar categories in M. Wylie Blanchet's The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • nonfiction
  • nature

6. Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance

By: Stephen Herrero

3.41

Format: 32 pages,

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Similar categories in Stephen Herrero's Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • wildlife
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • nature
  • science

7. My Life with the Chimpanzees

By: Jane Goodall

3.00

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Finally sh… read more

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8. The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek

By: Sid Marty

3.70

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In describing the true events surrounding a series of frightening bear attacks in 1980, a bestselli… read more

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9. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

By: Mary Roach

3.84

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more

Similar categories in Mary Roach's Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • nature
  • science
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"We are irrational in our species-​specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

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10. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lankford's Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • outdoors
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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11. The Wolf

By: Nate Blakeslee

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

ASIN moved from this edition The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrat… read more

Similar categories in Nate Blakeslee's The Wolf book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • science
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • outdoors
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"By the 1920’s, the wolves had been all but eliminated from the continental United States, except for a small population in northern Minnesota and Michigan’s upper peninsula. It was a campaign unprece…"

-Nate Blakeslee, The Wolf

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12. The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

By: Erika Howsare

3.79

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

A masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with dee… read more

Similar categories in Erika Howsare's The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • nature
  • science
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
"Humans are subtracting animals and adding themselves; beings that wear fur or bark are cut down by those in cotton."

-Erika Howsare, The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors

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13. Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

By: Michelle Nijhuis

4.10

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement—told through the lives and ideas of the peopl… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Nijhuis's Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • conservation
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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14. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

By: Timothy Egan

4.13

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken nat… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Egan's The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • conservation
  • environment
  • audiobook
"There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty."

-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

"Of all the foes which attack the woodlands of North America, no other is so terrible as fire."

-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

"Ideas take on their own trajectory, but they die without people to carry them into the corridors of power."

-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

"Onward and upward he pushed until rock, ground, and forest came to an end, until there was nothing but a sharp edge of blunt earth protruding in the late light of the range, where he could see well b…"

-Timothy Egan, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

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15. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

By: Gloria Dickie

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more

Similar categories in Gloria Dickie's Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • nature
  • science
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"

-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

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16. Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

By: Bryce Andrews

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the… read more

Similar categories in Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • wildlife
  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • conservation
  • outdoors
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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17. The Twenty-Ninth Day

By: Alex Messenger

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old’s dream adventure,… read more

Similar categories in Alex Messenger's The Twenty-Ninth Day book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
  • audiobook
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18. The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog

By: Rick McIntyre

4.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves—but park rangers killed the … read more

Similar categories in Rick McIntyre's The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • wildlife
  • science
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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19. The Bears of Brooks Falls: Wildlife and Survival on Alaska's Brooks River

By: Michael Fitz

4.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

On the Alaska Peninsula, where exceptional landscapes are commonplace, a small river attracts atten… read more

Similar categories in Michael Fitz's The Bears of Brooks Falls: Wildlife and Survival on Alaska's Brooks River book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • environment
  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
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20. A Shape in the Dark: Living and Dying with Brown Bears

By: Bjorn Dihle

4.17

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In A Shape in the Dark, wilderness guide and lifelong Alaskan Bjorn Dihle weaves personal experienc… read more

Similar categories in Bjorn Dihle's A Shape in the Dark: Living and Dying with Brown Bears book and Bryce Andrews's Down From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

  • science
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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21. Summers End (A Shady Hollow Mystery, #5)

By: Juneau Black

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A unique take on dark academia, featuring everyone's favorite vulpine sleuth, Vera Vixen. It's lat… read more

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  • animals
  • nature
  • audiobook

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3.41

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3.50

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Mary Roach

3.84

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Andrea Lankford

3.76

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Mary Roach

3.84

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John Scalzi

4.16

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Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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Heather Radke

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