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Title: Among Grizzlies by Jewel Palovak, Timothy Treadwell ISBN: 0-345-42605-3 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.79 (68 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Delicious!
Comment: Up until the moment they shot me, I thoroughly enjoyed Timothy Treadwell and his companion. I will say that he was a bit gamey, but hey, that's backpacking, right? In particular, I enjoyed his pleas for help and his small intestine. I believe I tasted just the faintest hint of vanilla.
Oh, wait, this is for BOOK reviews?
Rating: 1
Summary: What are the underpinnings behind this madness?
Comment: Having recently read this book, I want to ascertain the unstated assumptions driving these people to their worldview (and in the case of Treadwell, his death). As best I can determine, the Grizzly People cult believe this:
1. If you believe that people, bears, ducks, etc., ought to love each other, love is guaranteed;
2. If you talk enough about peace, you'll get it;
3. There are no such things as enemies (or predators), just friends we haven't apologized to.
Notwithstanding the tragedy of his death, I am heartened that darwinian effects invariably removed Treadwell's genes from the pool.
Rating: 3
Summary: Entertaining but how much of it is real??
Comment: Actually, against my better taste, I enjoyed reading this book. However, I thought Threadwell was smoking something funny as his behavior seem to be so dangerous. The author was mauled and eaten by a bear in Alaska last October 2003 and the book seem to show why. He seem to treat bears like people but he forgot that like people, bears can go good, indifferent or bad. Ironically, just like its very dangerous for bears to lose their fear of humans, its equally dangerous for a man to lose his fear of the bear. The book clearly shows that Threadwell slowly overcoming his fear of bears (although he remains wary) and actually feeling comfortable around them as the pages turned. That can be considered as a bad move, arrogant and presumptuous. Threadwell also seem to mistaken bears' tolerance for him as some sort of a mystic connection. He began to treat these bears as if they were his personal wild pets, giving them names and intruding into their space. Such behavior only works while the bears were amazingly tolerant of Threadwell's presence. Although he had many close calls, it wasn't enough to bring caution into his mind. Despite of his obvious love of bears and fear that one of them might get kill because of him, Threadwell didn't seem to mind that he put himself in harm's way. Although Threadwell stated that he don't mind being bear fodder, he obviously fought back hard if the newspaper accounts were correct when he was about to become the next afternoon snack. The book also seem to revealed Threadwell's obession with proachers and all that although Threadwell don't go into any kind of details. I was left with an impression that maybe the author took some liberties while writing this book.
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Title: Grizzly Years : In Search of the American Wilderness by Doug Peacock ISBN: 0805045430 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Field Guide to the Grizzly Bear (Sasquatch Field Guide Series) by Great Bear Foundation, Lance Olsen ISBN: 0912365552 Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: August, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Mark of the Grizzly: True Stories of Recent Bear Attacks and the Hard Lessons Learned by Scott McMillion ISBN: 1560446366 Publisher: Falcon Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Learning to Talk Bear: So Bears Can Listen by Roland Cheek ISBN: 0918981026 Publisher: Skyline Publishing Company Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Where the Grizzly Walks: The Future of the Great Bear by Bill Schneider ISBN: 0762726024 Publisher: Falcon Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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