Jans, Nick

A rhyming journey around Alaska discovering all the wild life and beauty that nature has to offer.

Recounts the six-year friendship between author Jans and a black wolf he named Romeo. Discusses how he met Romeo near his home in Alaska, and how the wolf became friends with local dogs and people. Describes what Romeo taught people about wolves and the wild.

Examines the work of Timothy Treadwell to protect the grizzly bear and his death from a bear attack. Plots out Treadwell's final expedition and encounter with the grizzly. Provides a portrait of the "Bear Whisperer" as well as of the grizzly bear and its behavior.

Recounts Timothy Treadwell's efforts to protect grizzly bears and disprove the perception that they are dangerously aggressive, and chronicles his last expedition into the Alaskan wilderness, when Treadwell was mauled to death by a bear.