Mountain Lion

by Rebecca L. Grambo

Book Overview

Also known as panthers, cougars, and pumas, mountain lions call a vast region home: western Canada, the 12 western US states and Florida, Mexico, and Central and South America. Beautiful and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811819302
• ISBN13: 9780811819305
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

Great overview of mountain lions

The author and photographer provide a great overview of the characteristics, ecology, history, and future of the mountain lion. Readers should understand that essentially all pictures shown in any mountain lion photo book are going to be of captive animals. Mountain lions are too elusive in the wild to get the types of shots as shown here. One exception is the book "Spirit of the Rockies: The Mountain Lions of Jackson Hole" by Thomas Mangelson, which has a more limited set of wild mountain lion photos. At least Daniel Cox states up front in the introduction that his photos are of captive animals. Other authors are not as forthcoming. The reason I give this book only 4 stars however is that I question whether all of the photos depict mountain lions in their natural habitat. While the majority of Daniel's photos seem to meet that standard, a few of them do not (and are thus more to evoke an emotional response and a photographer with revenue than to accurately depict a wild animal in its natural habitat). I would still recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a good book about mountain lions with a descriptive text and beautiful photos.

Beautiful & Informative

You can judge a book by it's cover. It's just as beautiful inside as it is outside. Very informative and a joy to read. If you love wildlife or any of the big cats, you'll definitely want to add this book to your collection!

A book you will be proud to own.

A wonderful book. A joy to read. Rebecca L. Grambo writes well with a sympathetic eye. She discusses these beauties and their plight for survival. The accompanying magestic photos by Daniel J. Cox perfectly match the content from the Author. Since the Nature of Mountain Lions are so shy, I appreciate the wonderful photographs of them in nature which would otherwise be very difficult to photograph. I recommend this book to any cat and animal lovers out there. I hope this book stirrs up the public's interest in saving the Mountian Lion from extinction.

Wonderful wildcat photography. Highly recommended

______________________________________________ These are the best mountain lion photographs I've ever seen, and one of the best wildlife-photography books I know of. The text is competent and well-researched, but the real attraction is Cox's wonderful photos. If you have any interest in wildcats, you need this book. Or if you need a gift for a cat-lover .... Cox photographed mainly captive-bred cats; this is evident only in the extraordinary intimacy of the photos, such as one of the mother cat giving birth, and many of appealing blue-eyed, spotted cubs at play. I'd have liked to know how he took the one where the lion is leaping straight into the camera. Or the one where it looks like he was in the same sandstone cave with the lion, in Utah's magnificent canyonlands. Or the cat in mid-leap over a chasm. Sadly, such details are conspicuous by their absence; the text is resolutely generic. But this is quibbling. The photos speak for themselves -- like the cat who's treed a porcupine, and (next photo, please) gets a snootful of quills. The publisher's puff copy calls this "the most extraordinary photographic book on mountain lions ever published." I would agree, and recommend it highly. Review copyright 1999 by Peter D. Tillman