Paul Trout’s Deadly Powers

Animal Predators Stalking Prehistory and the Human Mind

BY DAVID S. LEWIS

01/03/12

Imagine a world, if you dare, where huge vicious predators of differing and fearsome varieties constantly prowled the night (and day) in search of prey, in search of food, and you were on their menu of delectable appetizers.

Quite a stressful scenario. Consider, to put this in a modern context, that you decide to take a day hike up to the M in Bozeman, or to Pine Creek Lake in Paradise Valley, and on the way you get that sneaking feeling you’re being watched. Then, lo and behold, a pack of huge deadly cats, each one the size of your Subaru wagon, with fangs the size of your forearm, descends on your terrified party and tears all of you limb from limb in a feast of blood and gore, ruining your outing.

Now, imagine such threats and occurrences were not the exception in your life, but common, and you begin to understand humanity’s prehistoric reality as laid out by Paul Trout of Bozeman in his new book Deadly Powers, Animal Predators and the Mythic Imagination (Prometheus Books). READ MORE

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