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Join Country Bookshelf in welcoming Brad Orsted, author of Through the Wilderness, for a book signing on Small Business Saturday - November 25th at 12pm. Please contact Country Bookshelf with any accessibility concerns.

Through the Wilderness: My Journey of Redemption and Healing in the American Wild by Award-winning Yellowstone photographer and documentary filmmaker Brad Orsted begins in Yellowstone, five months after the family’s arrival, when in an alcoholic haze, Brad stumbled into a field of sage and comes close to an adult male grizzly bear.

Against all odds, Brad survives and comes to the realization he wants to live – he just doesn’t know how. 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, back to Marley.

Through the Wilderness is a gripping tale of redemption and courage, as Orsted reinvents his life in the wake of loss and grief, and depicts the healing powers of the wild and the redemptive nature of the human spirit.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Brad Orsted’s passion for wildlife conservation filmmaking and photography has earned him work with top networks like: Nat Geo Wild, The BBC, PBS, Nature, The Smithsonian Channel, and The Washington Post. Brad resides in Big Timber, Montana where he is hard at work on his second book and wilderness therapy programs. Brad’s film with Jeff Bridges and Doug Peacock, “The Beast of Our Time” won Best Environmental Film Award at the prestigious L.A. Doc Film Festival.