{"product_id":"heart-of-a-lion-a-lone-cats-walk-across-america-9781620405529","title":"Heart of a Lion: A Lone Cat's Walk Across America","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHeart of a Lion: A Lone Cat's Walk Across America\u003c\/strong\u003e by Stolzenburg, William. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781620405529.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLate one June night in 2011, a large animal collided with an SUV cruising down a Connecticut parkway. The creature appeared as something out of New Englands forgotten past. Beside the road lay a 140-pound mountain lion.\n\nSpeculations ran wild, the wildest of which figured him a ghostly survivor from a bygone century when lions last roamed the eastern United States. But a more fantastic scenario of facts soon unfolded. The lion was three years old, with a DNA trail embarking from the Black Hills of South Dakota on a cross-country odyssey eventually passing within thirty miles of New York City. It was the farthest landbound trek ever recorded for a wild animal in America, by a barely weaned teenager venturing solo through hostile terrain.\n\nWilliam Stolzenburg retraces his two-year journey--from his embattled birthplace in the Black Hills, across the Great Plains and the Mississippi River, through Midwest metropolises and remote northern forests, to his tragic finale upon Connecticuts Gold Coast. Along the way, the lion traverses lands with people gunning for his kind, as well as those championing his cause.\n\nHeart of a Lion is a story of one heroic creature pitting instinct against towering odds, coming home to a society deeply divided over his return. It is a testament to the resilience of nature, and a test of humanitys willingness to live again beside the ultimate symbol of wildness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"By","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945904894005,"sku":"ByrdShop_1620405520","price":51.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781620405529_c5451275-36ce-485b-b525-07db69a4660b.jpg?v=1778793157","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/heart-of-a-lion-a-lone-cats-walk-across-america-9781620405529","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}