Award winning professional photographer, author and biologist Matthias Breiter has documented the lives of the Bears of Katmai for the last fifteen years. In the course of the seasons, he came to know individual animals intimately.

This book portrays in spectacular images and poignant stories the lives of these monarchs of Alaskan wilderness. Words and images interweave to become a moving documentary revealing breathtaking encounters from wrestling cubs, maternal displays, the industrious hunt for salmon, to battles for supremacy.