The beast in the garden : a modern parable of man and nature /
David Baron.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Norton, c2004.
- 277 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-274).
Prologue: Death in the Ecotone. PART ONE : The Peaceable Kingdom: 1. A Land without Carnivory -- 2. Return of the Native -- 3. Happy Times -- 4. City of Nature -- 5. Lion Search -- 6. The Day Shift. PART TWO : Borrowed Time: 7. Sterkfontein Redux -- 8. Cats and Dogs -- 9. Trouble in the Canyon -- 10. The Hunt -- 11. Culture - Human and Animal. PART THREE : Plague: 12. The Long Summer -- 13. Final Run -- 14. The Investigation -- 15. Exegesis. Epilogue: The Myth of Wilderness.