Voice of the Great Spirit - Dave Campbell

Bill Fischer Award Finalist for Best First Book (Nonfiction)

More than a wildlife story, this thoughtfully constructed celebration of the grizzly bear features the work of Irish photographer Dave Campbell in a skillfully realized journey around one of the last surviving tracts of temperate rainforest on Earth: Knight Inlet, British Columbia. Traveling between spring and summer over an eight-year period, Campbell captured photographs of this threatened landscape, championing one of the few safe havens of the raincoast grizzly bear by simply documenting the world in which these magnificent animals live. Moving gradually from the skies over the inlet to the depths of the forest, with scenery, plant life, and other animals of the Canadian wilderness throughout, the narrative comes face to face with the grizzlies in their natural state, not as the aggressors of popular imagination, but as gentle creaturesthe playful bear, the fisher bear, and the family bear.