Never Look A Polar Bear In The Eye
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Author |
: Zac Unger |
Publisher |
: Hachette+ORM |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2013-01-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780306821639 |
ISBN-13 |
: 030682163X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye by : Zac Unger
"I like to go out for walks, but it's a little awkward to push the baby stroller and carry a shotgun at the same time." -- housewife from Churchill, Manitoba Yes, welcome to Churchill, Manitoba. Year-round human population: 943. Yet despite the isolation and the searing cold here at the arctic's edge, visitors from around the globe flock to the town every fall, driven by a single purpose: to see polar bears in the wild. Churchill is "The Polar Bear Capital of the World," and for one unforgettable "bear season," Zac Unger, his wife, and his three children moved from Oakland, California, to make it their temporary home. But they soon discovered that it's really the polar bears who are at home in Churchill, roaming past the coffee shop on the main drag, peering into garbage cans, languorously scratching their backs against fence posts and front doorways. Where kids in other towns receive admonitions about talking to strangers, Churchill schoolchildren get "Let's All Be Bear Aware" booklets to bring home. (Lesson number 8: Never explore bad-smelling areas.) Zac Unger takes readers on a spirited and often wildly funny journey to a place as unique as it is remote, a place where natives, tourists, scientists, conservationists, and the most ferocious predators on the planet converge. In the process he becomes embroiled in the controversy surrounding "polar bear science" -- and finds out that some of what we've been led to believe about the bears' imminent extinction may not be quite the case. But mostly what he learns is about human behavior in extreme situations . . . and also why you should never even think of looking a polar bear in the eye.
Author |
: Zac Unger |
Publisher |
: Da Capo Press |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2013-01-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780306821165 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0306821168 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye by : Zac Unger
A portrait of the tiny Manitoba community to which numerous scientists, conservationists, and tourists flock to observe regional polar bears explores how the species has become a lightning rod for environmental debate.
Author |
: Kale Williams |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2021-03-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781984826343 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1984826344 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Loneliest Polar Bear by : Kale Williams
“A moving story of abandonment, love, and survival against the odds.”—Dr. Jane Goodall The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating climate crisis is closely tied to our own Six days after giving birth, a polar bear named Aurora got up and walked away from her den at the Columbus Zoo, leaving her tiny squealing cub to fend for herself. Hours later, Aurora still hadn’t returned. The cub was furless and blind, and with her temperature dropping dangerously, the zookeepers entrusted with her care felt they had no choice: They would have to raise one of the most dangerous predators in the world by hand. Over the next few weeks, a group of veterinarians and zookeepers worked around the clock to save the cub, whom they called Nora. Humans rarely get as close to a polar bear as Nora’s keepers got to their fuzzy charge. But the two species have long been intertwined. Three decades before Nora’s birth, her father, Nanuq, was orphaned when an Inupiat hunter killed his mother, leaving Nanuq to be sent to a zoo. That hunter, Gene Agnaboogok, now faces some of the same threats as the wild bears near his Alaskan village of Wales, on the westernmost tip of the North American continent. As sea ice diminishes and temperatures creep up year after year, Agnaboogok and the polar bears—and everyone and everything else living in the far north—are being forced to adapt. Not all of them will succeed. Sweeping and tender, The Loneliest Polar Bear explores the fraught relationship humans have with the natural world, the exploitative and sinister causes of the environmental mess we find ourselves in, and how the fate of polar bears is not theirs alone.
Author |
: Yoko Tawada |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2016-11-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811225793 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811225798 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memoirs of a Polar Bear by : Yoko Tawada
The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers—who happen to be polar bears The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as “Yoko Tawada’s magnificent strangeness”—Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary world. In chapter one, the grandmother matriarch in the Soviet Union accidentally writes a bestselling autobiography. In chapter two, Tosca, her daughter (born in Canada, where her mother had emigrated) moves to the DDR and takes a job in the circus. Her son—the last of their line—is Knut, born in chapter three in a Leipzig zoo but raised by a human keeper in relatively happy circumstances in the Berlin zoo, until his keeper, Matthias, is taken away... Happy or sad, each bear writes a story, enjoying both celebrity and “the intimacy of being alone with my pen.”
Author |
: Paul Nicklen |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781426205118 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1426205112 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Polar Obsession by : Paul Nicklen
Striking photography of the polar regions and fauna found there.
Author |
: Stephen Herrero |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2018-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781493034574 |
ISBN-13 |
: 149303457X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bear Attacks by : Stephen Herrero
What causes bear attacks? When should you play dead and when should you fight an attacking bear? What do we know about black and grizzly bears and how can this knowledge be used to avoid bear attacks? And, more generally, what is the bear’s future? Bear Attacks is a thorough and unflinching landmark study of the attacks made on men and women by the great grizzly and the occasionally deadly black bear. This is a book for everyone who hikes, camps, or visits bear country–and for anyone who wants to know more about these sometimes fearsome but always fascinating wild creatures.
Author |
: Make Believe Ideas Ltd |
Publisher |
: Never Touch a |
Total Pages |
: 12 |
Release |
: 2020-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 178947888X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781789478884 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis Never Touch a Polar Bear! by : Make Believe Ideas Ltd
A tactile silicone touch-and-feel book, filled with fun winter animals.
Author |
: Sophy Henn |
Publisher |
: Penguin UK |
Total Pages |
: 32 |
Release |
: 2014-08-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780141357607 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0141357606 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Where Bear? by : Sophy Henn
From a major new picture book talent comes a deceptively simple and exquisitely illustrated story about a little boy and his bear and finding a place called home. Told with humour and warmth, 'Where Bear?' will capture the heart of its reader.
Author |
: Stephen Herrero |
Publisher |
: Greystone Books Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781553653875 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1553653874 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Smiling Bears by : Stephen Herrero
Annotation A zookeeper's extraordinary relationship with the bears she has rehabilitated and her insights into their behavior and emotional lives. Few people know bears as intimately as Else Poulsen. She has raised bears, comforted bears, taught bears, learned from bears, had bears communicate their needs to her, and nursed bears back to health. This remarkable book reveals the many insights about bears and their lives that she has gained through her work with them. In the eighties, Poulsen became a zookeeper in Calgary, where she rehabilitated bears in crisis. She has shared in the joy of a polar bear discovering soil under her paws for the first time in twenty years, felt the pride of a cub learning to crack nuts with her molars, and grieved at the horror of captivity for Asian black bears in China. Smiling Bearsprovides an enlightening and moving portrait of bears in all their richness and complexity and of Poulsen's exhilarating work with them.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: Candlewick Press |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2013-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780763666897 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0763666890 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mistakes Were Made by :
Resolving to earn so much money that his mother will no longer stress out over the bills, eleven-year-old Timmy Failure launches a detective business with a lazy polar bear partner named Total but finds their enterprise "Total Failure, Inc." challenged by a college-bound spy and a four-foot-tall girl whom Timmy refuses to acknowledge.