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Summary: Peacock's Grizzly Years
Review: This book describes Doug Peacock's bear-watching and travels through the American west during the 1970s and 1980s. The writing is fine. What is best about the book are the unique experiences and lifestyle of Peacock. Most chapters describe Peacock's activities while migrating up and down the Rocky mountains to observe bears in their own seasonal patterns. Other chapters cover his experiences living in an observation tower in Glacier National Park. For a humorous and gripping read about Doug Peacock, bears, and tramping through the woods, seek out The Lost Grizzlies by Rick Bass.
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Summary: A book calculated for our times
Review: Too much verbiage on wandering through the woods; too little information on grizzlies -- although what's there is genuine. The prose style is typical "American Public Simple," neither intellectually challenging nor capable of holding the reader's attention. Too many words -- at a high school reading level -- and not enough content. The Vietnam War flashbacks are largely gratuitous, something to capture the target audience. The entire work strikes one as a manufactured product, with reading level, content, style, and "insight" groomed by the publisher's editor, not by the author. A light read, at best, primarily for urbanites who need to believe there's still a metaphysical 'Wilderness' out there somewhere, where we can save our collective souls....
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Summary: Grizzly Bears and Doug Peacock tell us how we can survive.
Review: We are rapidly destroying the balance of life on this planet, and with it our chances for survival. Doug Peacock reveals intimate aspects of his life and that of some wild grizzly bears. In doing so, he shows us a way to better understand our place in the great web of life. Peacock's example shows us how to be fully human
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