Jake MacDonald had his first experience with bears when, as a 20-year-old travelling through the wilderness of British Columbia, he lay awake in his tent at night, simultaneously eager and terrified...

Jake MacDonald is an award-winning author of six books, a short story writer and a journalist. His memoir, Houseboat Chronicles , won three awards, including the Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize....

"Grizzlyville does a wondrous job of placing bears back where they belong . . . in the natural world and in those recesses of human imagination where bears have always lived. . . . A vivid book, rich in detail, about one of the earth’s greatest creatures.”
— Thomas McGuane, author of Ninety-two in the Shade