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On Being a Bear: Face to Face with Our Wild Sibling

On Being a Bear: Face to Face with Our Wild Sibling - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rémy Marion, Lambert Wilson (Foreword by)Publish date:2021-03-30Pages:248
Language:EnglishPublisher:Greystone BooksISBN-13:9781771646987ISBN-10:1771646985UPC:9781771646987Book Category:Nature, ScienceBook Subcategory:Animals, Essays, Life SciencesBook Topic:Bears, ZoologySize:7.60 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCY4G80NR0

This up-close, captivating look at an iconic animal traces our complex relationship to bears throughout history--and what they can tell us about ourselves.

On Being a Bear draws on history, legends, scientific studies, and the author's thirty years of observing bears around the world to offer a richly detailed biography of these iconic animals, including the many ways bears have figured in our lives and imaginations.

As author Rémy Marion tells us, some cultures view bears as our wild cousins--as humans cloaked in fur--while others cast bears as cuddly characters in cartoons or seek to eradicate their grizzled forms from civilization. Scientists have made new discoveries into bears' varied diets, their powerful sense of smell, and a mother bear's stubborn patience with her cubs. Bears play a vital role in our ecosystems, and new studies into bear hibernation could lead to medical breakthroughs for humans. Offering these and more astonishing insights, On Being a Bear brings readers face-to-face with these long admired, feared, and misunderstood animals, and sets the record straight through a combination of thrilling science and expert storytelling.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Greystone BooksISBN-13:9781771646987ISBN-10:1771646985UPC:9781771646987Book Category:Nature, ScienceBook Subcategory:Animals, Essays, Life SciencesBook Topic:Bears, ZoologySize:7.60 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCY4G80NR0

RÉMY MARION is an author, photographer, and documentary filmmaker who has devoted his life to observing bears in the wild since the 1980s. Marion is a member of France's national societies of geographers and explorers, and he is considered to be one of the country's leading authorities on brown bears and polar bears.


Publisher: Greystone Books

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