The Bear Doesn't Know
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The Bear Doesn't Know by Paul Schullery
In The Bear Doesn’t Know, Paul Schullery—honored naturalist, storyteller, and former Yellowstone ranger—has given us a bear-lover’s book of wonders. It is rich in the joy, beauty, inspiration, and pure fun to be had during a life well lived in bear country. While exploring the cultural complications of an animal we have long both feared and adored, he chronicles the bumpy course of our coming to terms with the mysteries of bear ecology and behavior. Schullery brings to the matter of bears a long view—of our centuries-long and always-evolving perception of wild bears, of the scientific exploration of bear ecology and behavior, and of the sometimes bitter struggles to protect bear populations for the future. Featuring Schullery’s trademark gifts for historical inquiry and scientific translation, as well as for mixing humor with telling insight, Schullery enlivens The Bear Doesn’t Know with many of his own quirky tales of life in the wildlands of North America and in the obscure realms of bear folklore and literature. North America’s bears have become universally recognized symbols of wild landscapes and the struggles to preserve them. In this collection, Schullery illuminates and celebrates the bears and their world, making plain why they always have and always will matter so much to us.
"Readable, enlightening and genuinely entertaining, Schullery navigates easily between being conversational and deeply knowledgeable because of his background, experience and researchRooted in the scientific and historical, the book is humbly philosophical with an imminently humane point of view. In fact, the viewpoint is often that of the bear. And thank goodness it is. Schullery shows quite clearly how danger and fascination go hand-in-hand."—Charles E. Rankin, Roundup Magazine
"This book is a most fitting tribute to everything that bears represent to us and to the bears themselves, even if they don't know."—Frank T. van Manen, International Bear News
"For all his love for bears, Schullery is a well-grounded realist. . . . Schullery tells readers they must not view bears through a human lens, but to instead look, listen, and learn to 'accept that animals are best appreciated on their own terms, no matter how dramatically those terms may differ from ours.'"—David James, Anchorage Daily News
"This book is ideal for those who wish a more realistic glimpse of this wonderous creature."—J. Kemper Campbell, Lincoln Journal Star
“Paul Schullery has spent the last fifty years watching and thinking about bears. In this entertaining and informative collection of essays and stories he lets us in on what he discovered. We’re lucky he did. Schullery possesses a wonderfully inquisitive mind, a passion for the natural world, and, thankfully for us all, a talent for explaining things with both precision and a wry sense of humor.”—Dayton Duncan, writer and producer of The National Parks: America’s Best Idea
“Paul Schullery is a master of the essayist’s and memoirist’s craft. His prose is clean and cogent, witty and wise. He pays great attention. He has been out among the bears—often with the biologists who study them—and this has given him a fine understanding of and appreciation for these formidable mammals. The Bear Doesn’t Know is educating and entertaining, a thoroughly delightful paean to these very special creatures with whom we are privileged to share the earth.”—Charles Fergus, author of the Gideon Stoltz Mystery series
“From John Muir forward, writers in the American West have been trying to make sense of wild creatures and places. Paul Schullery, with his always lyrical, thoughtful, and, at times, witty prose, has been one of the best modern observers, having close association with this nation’s most venerable natural destination, Yellowstone. No animals are more synonymous with Yellowstone than bears. Schullery takes us into Yellowstone and farther afield. In The Bear Doesn’t Know, Schullery, much to our delight, comes out of his own thankfully-brief hibernation and regales us with inspiring bear stories. He introduces us to the real bruin, even better than myth, and, along the way, tugs on our heartstrings to have us care more about their survival in this briskly paced world. He bestows bruins with the respect they deserve and reminds us that the responsibility of coexistence is on us. The Bear Doesn’t Know is a wonderful read that stays with you long after you turn the last page.”—Todd Wilkinson, coauthor of Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek: An Intimate Portrait of 399, The Most Famous Bear of Greater Yellowstone
"This book is a most fitting tribute to everything that bears represent to us and to the bears themselves, even if they don't know."—Frank T. van Manen, International Bear News
"For all his love for bears, Schullery is a well-grounded realist. . . . Schullery tells readers they must not view bears through a human lens, but to instead look, listen, and learn to 'accept that animals are best appreciated on their own terms, no matter how dramatically those terms may differ from ours.'"—David James, Anchorage Daily News
"This book is ideal for those who wish a more realistic glimpse of this wonderous creature."—J. Kemper Campbell, Lincoln Journal Star
“Paul Schullery has spent the last fifty years watching and thinking about bears. In this entertaining and informative collection of essays and stories he lets us in on what he discovered. We’re lucky he did. Schullery possesses a wonderfully inquisitive mind, a passion for the natural world, and, thankfully for us all, a talent for explaining things with both precision and a wry sense of humor.”—Dayton Duncan, writer and producer of The National Parks: America’s Best Idea
“Paul Schullery is a master of the essayist’s and memoirist’s craft. His prose is clean and cogent, witty and wise. He pays great attention. He has been out among the bears—often with the biologists who study them—and this has given him a fine understanding of and appreciation for these formidable mammals. The Bear Doesn’t Know is educating and entertaining, a thoroughly delightful paean to these very special creatures with whom we are privileged to share the earth.”—Charles Fergus, author of the Gideon Stoltz Mystery series
“From John Muir forward, writers in the American West have been trying to make sense of wild creatures and places. Paul Schullery, with his always lyrical, thoughtful, and, at times, witty prose, has been one of the best modern observers, having close association with this nation’s most venerable natural destination, Yellowstone. No animals are more synonymous with Yellowstone than bears. Schullery takes us into Yellowstone and farther afield. In The Bear Doesn’t Know, Schullery, much to our delight, comes out of his own thankfully-brief hibernation and regales us with inspiring bear stories. He introduces us to the real bruin, even better than myth, and, along the way, tugs on our heartstrings to have us care more about their survival in this briskly paced world. He bestows bruins with the respect they deserve and reminds us that the responsibility of coexistence is on us. The Bear Doesn’t Know is a wonderful read that stays with you long after you turn the last page.”—Todd Wilkinson, coauthor of Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek: An Intimate Portrait of 399, The Most Famous Bear of Greater Yellowstone
Paul Schullery, the author, coauthor, or editor of more than forty books, is the recipient of numerous awards for his work as a writer and conservationist, including honorary doctorates from Ohio University and Montana State University; the Wallace Stegner Award from the University of Colorado Center of the American West; a Panda award for the PBS film on Yellowstone; and awards for his work on grizzly bear recovery, conservation history, and national park policy. Schullery advised and participated in Ken Burns's National Parks documentary and is currently scholar-in-residence at the Montana State University Library. In the world of fly fishing, Paul learned the sport during his years as a Yellowstone Ranger-Naturalist in the 1970s and then served as the first executive director of the American Museum of Fly Fishing and editor of the museum's journal. A life member of Trout Unlimited and Fly Fishers International, his fly-fishing books include American Fly Fishing: A History, Royal Coachman, Shupton's Fancy, Cowboy Trout, The Rise, and The Fishing Life. He received the Roderick Haig-Brown Award from Fly Fisher's International and was inducted into the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame in 2014. Paul lives in Bozeman, Montana, with his artist wife Marsha Karle.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781496226068 |
| ISBN 10 | 1496226062 |
| Titel | The Bear Doesn't Know |
| Autor | Paul Schullery |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | University of Nebraska Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2021-09-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 256 |
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