The Essential Grizzly: The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears
Peacock, Doug; Peacock, Andrea
Language: English
Published by Lyons Pr, 2006
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- Title
- The Essential Grizzly: The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears
- Author
- Peacock, Doug; Peacock, Andrea
- Publisher
- Lyons Pr
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- very_good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1592288480
- ISBN 13
- 9781592288489
Neither the bear community nor the international press knew what to make of these tragedies. Why the seemingly needless deaths of both men and bears? Especially disturbing were the deaths of Treadwell and Huguenard. Though death by wild beast today strikes us as utterly unexpected, humans have experienced this extreme form of animal interaction throughout the millennia of their evolution.
Men and Bears explores these kinds of encounters, beginning with interviews--of biologists, mauling victims, hunters, native people, photographers--all kinds of people who have had close contact with grizzly bears. Doug and Andrea Peacock then wrap these human narratives in the universe of the bear, with the benefit of modern and traditional knowledge of bear behavior. To these they add unique portraits, sketches of real grizzlies from the viewpoint of the bear, along with the parallel human story of an actual encounter. Last, they provide the context of Doug's extensive experience in grizzly country, considered by many people to be the most authoritative in the world.
The urban dweller's craving for these timeless, sometimes horrific, stories reveals an aching desire to understand our own place in the world and in the landscapes of human evolution--a wildness now vanishing before our eyes. Filling a gap in the literature, Men and Bears eclipses existing books on bear behavior, attacks, and how-to pamphlets, providing readers with a twenty-first-century context for revisiting the original shudder of Homo sapiens--the bear or the lion in the cave of our genesis--and finding a measure of familiarity and value there.
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About the Author
ANDREA PEACOCK is the author of the critically acclaimed Libby, Montana: Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of the American Corporation. Her articles have also appeared in Mother Jones and High Country News. She is the former editor of the Missoula Independent. Andrea and Doug live in Livingston, Montana.
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