Heart of a Lion

There are significant insights in this book, if your mind is open enough to recognize them. This is superbly written, journalistic style non-fiction, rendering a mountain lion's journey from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Connecticut coast, but that's only the glue that holds this exceptional......more

This is a gorgeously written, factually tracked account of a male mountain lion's journey from the Black Hills to the coast of Connecticut - based in accurate science, with parallel accounts of other cats' journeys in their attempts to disperse and re-colonize their former range. It traces human att......more

Truth is stranger than fiction. Here's the basics slightly edited: Late one June night in 2011, a large animal collides with an SUV cruising down Connecticut's scenic Merritt Parkway. The creature appears as something out of New England's forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion......more

I stumbled across Heart of Lion due to an amazon promotion, and almost didn't get it. I thought it was going to be a nonrepresentative book about a single animal, that it wouldn't have good information, and that might be boring. It was the glowing reviews that convinced me to give it a shot, which I......more

On a summer night in 2011, on a highway in Connecticut, a mountain lion was struck and killed. Once DNA testing was done on the wayward animal, it was discovered, that it came from the Black Hills of South Dakota. This excellent book traces the extraordinary path of this lion, along with the history......more