Canyon
Canyon

Author: John Van der Zee

Publisher:

Published: 2010-09

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 9780615365558

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek
The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek

Author: Sid Marty

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2008-11-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0771056982

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In describing the true events surrounding a series of frightening bear attacks in l980, a bestselling nature/adventure author explores our relationship with the great grizzly. Many citizens of Banff, Alberta, valued living in a place where wildlife grazed on the front lawn; others saw wild bears as a mere roadside attraction. None were expecting the bear attacks that summer, which led to one man’s death. During the massive hunt that followed, Banff was portrayed in the international media as a town under siege by a killer bear, and the tourists stayed away. The pressure was on to find and destroy the Whiskey Creek mauler, but he evaded park wardens and struck again — and again. When the fight was over, the hard lessons learned led to changes that would save the lives of both bears and people in the coming years. Sid Marty’s The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek is an evocative and gripping story that speaks to our complex and increasingly combative relationship with the wilderness and its inhabitants.

Welcome, Scholar
Welcome, Scholar

Author: Jake Fuchs

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780998831015

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"English Ph.D. Derek Rosenblum, the hero of this comic, often shocking novel, can t land a full-time teaching position. After too many years of marginal employment, he wonders: is Dulness, the moronic presiding deity of Alexander Pope's great satiric Dunciad, somehow responsible for the series of misadventures that make up his life? She's only a fiction, Derek tells himself, but he senses her presence everywhere. The authoritative figures he encounters Lucia Luteplucker, his unhelpful adviser at Heartland U, Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher impress him as her fleshly incarnations. They and others constantly thwart Derek, until he discovers just what the goddess wants and gives it to her. Soon he s offered the job of his dreams, and happily tenured Full Professor Rosenblum spends thirty comfortable years boring students. Then, as Welcome, Scholar concludes, final catastrophe arrives." -- Amazon.

Night of the Grizzlies
Night of the Grizzlies

Author: Jack Olsen

Publisher: Crime Rant Books

Published:

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For more than half a century, grizzly bears roamed free in the national parks without causing a human fatality. Then in 1967, on a single August night, two campers were fatally mauled by enraged bears -- thus signaling the beginning of the end for America's greatest remaining land carnivore. Night of the Grizzlies, Olsen's brilliant account of another sad chapter in America's vanishing frontier, traces the causes of that tragic night: the rangers' careless disregard of established safety precautions and persistent warnings by seasoned campers that some of the bears were acting "funny"; the comforting belief that the great bears were not really dangerous -- would attack only when provoked. The popular sport that summer was to lure the bears with spotlights and leftover scraps -- in hopes of providing the tourists with a show, a close look at the great "teddy bears." Everyone came, some of the younger campers even making bold enough to sleep right in the path of the grizzlies' known route of arrival. This modern "bearbaiting" could have but one tragic result…

The Grizzly Maze
The Grizzly Maze

Author: Nick Jans

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006-01-31

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780452287358

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

With a new introduction on Werner Herzog’s film entitled The Grizzly Man Timothy Treadwell, self-styled “bear whisperer” dared to live among the grizzlies, seeking to overturn the perception of them as dangerously aggressive animals. When he and his girlfriend were mauled, it created a media sensation. In The Grizzly Maze, Nick Jans, a seasoned outdoor writer with a quarter century of experience writing about Alaska and bears, traces Treadwell’s rise from unknown waiter in California to celebrity, providing a moving portrait of the man whose controversial ideas and behavior earned him the scorn of hunters, the adoration of animal lovers and the skepticism of naturalists. “Intensely imagistic, artfully controlled prose . . . behind the building tension of Treadwell’s path to oblivion, a stunning landscape looms.”—Newsday