Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 job in 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 in the 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.
Title: Through The Wilderness My Journey Of Redemption And Healing In The American Wild
Author(s): Orsted Brad
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250284693
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/27/2023
Category: Memoirs