Table of Contents
Banff and Reno
Part I: A Tale of Two Bears
Wilderness and Italy’s Alpine Bears
Italy’s Ancient Bears
Part II: Orso Bruno
A Time to Make Friends
A Bear Is Born
Petzi
Bruno Attacks
The Hunt for Bruno
Taunt
Bruno, Enemy of the State
Part III: The Last Bears of Abruzzo
Italian Grizzlies
Endangered Lives and Livelihoods
Classifying Hope
Ursus arctos marsicanus
The King Who Launched a Movement
Hagiography
Erasure
Control
Part IV: Bandits and Bureaucracy
Smoke
Ambush
Uso Civico
Fade Out
Pax Romana and the “Nature Tax”
The Cows of Little Tibet
The Blue Snow of Abruzzo
Rewilding the Mob
Part V: Resurrecting the Wild
Save the Bears
Loi and Loss
Beautiful Minds
Ark
Part VI: Father Bear
Champions
The Limits of Science
Works Cited