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Fry, Stephen Rescuing the Spectacled Bear ISBN 13: 9780091794606

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Both wildly funny and moving -- a journal of Stephen Fry’s bid to rescue Peru’s endangered spectacled bears.

On New Year’s Day 2002, the BBC broadcast a program about Stephen Fry’s trip to Peru to track Paddington Bear’s roots and more seriously to rescue a Spectacled Bear, one of the world’s endangered species. A follow-up program was broadcast a few months later when Fry’s team went back and helped rescue a mate for the young bear they had found on their first trip.

Stephen Fry is now gripped with drawing the world’s attention to these bears and has written a diary of his time in Peru. It is packed with beautiful colour pictures of Stephen, bears and Peru, and it is, of course, wildly funny. Stephen Fry is set to become the Diane Fossey of the bear world.

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There are those who have accused Stephen Fry of spreading his many talents too thinly. Rescuing the Spectacled Bear reminds us that it's possible to argue that he's at his best as a writer. It's a funny and moving diary of his bid to rescue Peru's endangered Spectacled Bears and altogether a delight. Earlier in 2002, BBC 1 broadcast a programme about Fry's visit to Peru to track Paddington Bear's roots and (more seriously) to rescue a Spectacled Bear, one of the world's endangered species. Later, Fry and his team went back and helped rescue a mate for the bear they had found on their first trip. Fry is clearly keen to draw the world's attention to these bears and this engaging diary of his time in Peru is both funny and committed. Will Fry become the Diane Fossey of the bear world?

The full colour, full-page illustrations are a particular delight and perfectly complement the author's whimsical word pictures of the Spectacled Bears. And there's even a bonus in the shape of some very funny jacket notes, comparing (item by item) the Spectacled Bear and Stephen Fry in terms of size, appearance and habitat, not to mention sexual habits. Of the bears: "Mating occurs in April, May and June and couples stay together for a week or two, with copulation occurring numerous times." Of Stephen Fry: "Subject of much speculation among scholars and gossip mongers. The mating ritual, which is remarkably noisy, lasts fourteen and a half years and makes a great deal of mess." --Barry Forshaw

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Stephen Fry's wonderfully funny and moving diary of his bid to rescue Peru's endangered Spectacle bears, as seen on BBC TV (2002-04-24)

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  • PublisherHutchinson
  • Publication date2099
  • ISBN 10 0091794609
  • ISBN 13 9780091794606
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages192
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