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No Room for Bears: A Wilderness Writer's Experiences With a Threatened Breed
No Room for Bears A Wilderness Writer's Experiences With a Threatened Breed Author:Frank Dufresne If the bear were to write his autogiography, it would be NO ROOM FOR BEARS. In fact, we strongly suspect that author Grank Dufrense is half bear himself. How else could he write so dramatic, so intimate, so personal an accounf of the evolution, varieties, and folklore of this extraordinary animal. The bear as a figure of mythol... more »ogy, the bear as an implacable killer, buffoon, moocher and thief, the bear as a tragic victim of encroaching civilization-eac facet is beautifully drawn in a disarmingly casual combination of fact and fancy.
His knowledge of bears is first-hand, and--in some hair-raising instances-- arm's length; it includes acute observation of courtship patterns, mating, family life, and even bear "psychology." Mr. Dufrense's stories range from the delightful (polar bears gliding about on magic carpets of dazzling arctic ice) to the horrifying (a woodsman feigning death while a she-bear swings him about with his head in her mouth).
An informal but complete ordering of the bear's million years of evolution, it is at the same time a collection of truly classic adventure tales.
A bold carnivore who once withstood the seiges of Neanderthal tribles, the bear now skirts the thin edge of extinction as his last habitats are methodically destroyed by man's unthinking self-indulgence. The aurthors own love for the bear is contagious; his plea for their preservation is touching, valid, and once you have read the book-irrestible.« less