The Ghost Walker by R. D. Lawrence

After a visit to my remote ranch home by a group of researchers from WSU doing a study on cougars who informed me that they have been tracking two different female cougars, each with kittens, via radio collars, and that they have been calling my mountain their home for the last few months, I figured that I should bone up on cougars. After a few chapters I remembered reading this book shortly after it was published in 1983. It is a great account of the fall, winter and spring when he left civilisation behind to further his study on cougars by living in the wilderness about 90 miles from Revelstoke, B.C. Chock full of facts about the wild cats, I learned enough to continue to feel comfortable wandering the wilds of my homeplace. Besides being fact filled, it is a wonderful story of the wilderness and all his adventures through the 10 months he spent there without ever seeing another human.