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Author:

Orsted, Brad, author.

Title:

Through the wilderness : my journey of redemption and healing in the American wild / Brad Orsted. / Brad Orsted.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

St. Martin's Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

242 pages cm

Subject:

Orsted, Brad.
Wildlife photographers--United States--Biography.
Alcoholics--United States--Biography.
Parental grief.
Adventure therapy.
Grizzly bear.
Yellowstone National Park.

Contents:

A grizzly conferment -- Howling wolves -- Centripetal -- The crow sweat hot -- The long walk back -- Run for the hills -- Kindred spirits -- Hard side of the mountain -- Dirt prayer -- North star -- Closing the hoop.

Summary:

"Award-winning Yellowstone photographer and documentary filmmaker Brad Orsted's seven-year search for refuge and redemption in America's greatest wilderness. When Brad Orsted's fifteen-month-old daughter, Marley, died mysteriously at the home of Brad's mother, he descended into madness. Blaming himself, he plunged into an abyss of grief, guilt, and self-recrimination, fueled by prescription drugs and alcohol. He planned his suicide as his wife, Stacey, searched for a new beginning. She finally found a jobin Yellowstone National Park and, with their daughters, Mazzy and Chloe, the pair fled Michigan, looking for refuge and redemption in the 2.2 million acres of glorious American wilderness. Through the Wilderness begins in Yellowstone, five months after the family's arrival in 2012, when, in an alcoholic haze, Brad stumbled into a field of sage and survived a face-to-face encounter with an adult male grizzly bear. For the first time in almost two years, he realized he wanted to live-he just didn't know how. Desperate for help, Brad invited himself to a Crow sweat lodge ceremony, where an elder told him it was time to stop grieving. The elder's words started Brad on a journey towards sobriety and inner peace, only possible because of lessons he learned inthe wild, his new job as a wildlife photographer and filmmaker, and two orphan grizzly cubs who carried him back home and taught him how to live again. Brad's ten-year odyssey is about finding the wild inside the human heart. It is a journey of the spirit- a journey to forgiveness and sobriety, to love and life, to memory, and ultimately, to Marley"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1250284694 : HRD
9781250284693 : HRD

LCCN:

2022058099

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