​      Join me on my adventures in wilderness areas and national parks of the Rocky Mountains, a South African temperate forest, and Vietnam’s jungles.  Drawn from decades of encounters with wildlife, and close calls with lightning and avalanches, this book's 16 essays range from humorous to harrowing. 
     These stories recount capturing newborn elk calves, stalking mountain goats on icy cliffs, being stranded on a mountain after riding out a helicopter crash, confrontations with bears during my research, plus quirky and edifying hunting tales and a back-country horse story or two.  Throughout these adventures, the magnetism and danger of wild nature are ever present, reminding us that our fascination with wildness often stems from its unpredictability.