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Summary: All the information you'll need
Review: After reading this book I understood the inside story of a bears behavior and its threat to humans. Stephen has laid out the information in easy to understand format with the reader and outdoor enthusiast in mind.
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Summary: Bear Prepared manual
Review: Fascinating read made vital when I lived in grizzly country in British Columbia. Excellent description of bear behavior and how to respond quickly given clues that cooperating bears hopefully will provide.Does an excellent writing craft of showing how truly majestic this creation of God's is and its needs for habitat and their erosion by the onslaught of man. Even if one is not living in bear danger, this book makes for very fine reading.
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Summary: Very Thorough Account of Bear Behavior
Review: I bought this book after reading 'The Bear's Embrace' because I wanted additional information about bears and their behavior.
The author of this book is one of the top researchers of bear behavior (he has a PhD. in animal behavior), and has over 30 years of experience observing and recording the behavior of bears.
The author mentioned, in an interview, what helped to complete the book. Kicking the coffee habit. Said drinking it clouded creativity. I agree too, and stopped completely a few weeks ago, with the help of a coffee replacement. It's called s o y f e e and I simply love it. Made from s o y that you brew just like coffee. I even like it better than the real stuff. Look for it at www.s oycoffee.com.
This book presents a balanced, objective analysis of everything related to bears from their feeding habits to attcks.
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Summary: Good Read!
Review: I was just in Banff and Jasper National Parks last month and bought this book while there. I hiked into bear country with this book in hand and found myself on a secluded mountain stream and read with gusto! Shortly thereafter I found myself constantly looking over my shoulder and making quite a bit of noise making sure that anyone or thing closeby knew I was there. Mr. Herrero writes a well-documented and educational book, showing the novice as well as advanced back-country adventurer the dos and don'ts of co-existing in bear country. It will frighten and teach you. Oh yes, I did indeed see a black bear, at a distance, up there as well...and I'm still here to write about it. I highly recommend this great book!
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Summary: Too bloody for me
Review: Is it worth wading through all the bloody bear attack tales in this book to get Herrero's safety tips and his facts and figures on bear attacks? Probably. But was it necessary for Herrero to include story after story with clinical details of bears ripping off people's faces? No. Definately not. A single story with details about the extent of the injuries people suffer during a bear attack would have been sufficient to illustrate the power of bears. This book includes at least 20-30 stories. This gratuitous violence wasn't necessary. I feel it demonizes bears. The difference between Herrero's book and a half-dozen trashy books filled with the same type of bloody bear attack tales (Alaska Bear Tales, Mark of the Grizzly, Bear Attacks: The Deadly Truth) is that once you get past all the blood and gore, Herrero gives an accurate analysis of the incident. The others don't. Herrero helps you understand what went wrong, and explains your best course of action should you ever find yourself in a dangerous situation with a bear. The others don't. Herrero is walking a real fine line between exploiting bears, and educating people about bears. He pulls it off, but you can get the same safety advice without the blood and violence from other books and other sources.
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Summary: Bear Attacks: Life's manual for living with bears
Review: Stephen Herrero has done an excellent job of illustrating and teaching the average "Joe" about bear psychology. He not only touches grizzly bear pyschology, characteristics, and behavior but includes, in great detail, how one can understand black bears as well. The book tends to be detailed in its descriptions of the attacks, but it is necessary to better understand how to protect oneself better in the rare case of an attack. His book is a great read that I recommend to anyone to better understand how to live with and understand bears that inhabit the contiguous United States and Canada. It will grab any individual who just wants to learn more about bears or individuals involved with bear management in all locations.
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Summary: As expert as anyone can be on this subject.
Review: Stephen Herrero's "Bear Attacks : Their Causes and Avoidance" is a good, serious, informative, bear attack read. The presentation is more scientific than literary and the book could have been written in a more captivating style, however. It's hard to imagine a book dedicated to true to life bear attacks that wouldn't keep outdoorsmen up at night, flipping page after page, but this is that book. If you'd like to combine true bear attack stories with a more masterful literary style, try Scott McMillion's "Mark of the Grizzly". Those who go on to read more by Herrero about bear attacks (legal documents, etc.) will find that he ultimately admits that this is far from an exact science too. In his testimony as expert witness in the Mt. Lemon (Arizona) attack, Herrero contradicts some of the most fundamental premises found in this book. Read this book, by all means, but before entering bear country, keep in mind that sometimes bears will do the unexpected. After all, what's the difference between black bear poop and grizzly bear poop? Griz poop has bells in it and smells like pepper.
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Summary: All the information you'll need
Review: Stephen Herrero's "Bear Attacks : Their Causes and Avoidance" is a good, serious, informative, bear attack read. The presentation is more scientific than literary and the book could have been written in a more captivating style, however. It's hard to imagine a book dedicated to true to life bear attacks that wouldn't keep outdoorsmen up at night, flipping page after page, but this is that book. If you'd like to combine true bear attack stories with a more masterful literary style, try Scott McMillion's "Mark of the Grizzly". Those who go on to read more by Herrero about bear attacks (legal documents, etc.) will find that he ultimately admits that this is far from an exact science too. In his testimony as expert witness in the Mt. Lemon (Arizona) attack, Herrero contradicts some of the most fundamental premises found in this book. Read this book, by all means, but before entering bear country, keep in mind that sometimes bears will do the unexpected. After all, what's the difference between black bear poop and grizzly bear poop? Griz poop has bells in it and smells like pepper.
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Summary: Very Informative
Review: This is a great book with lots of info not only about bear attacks, but about their behavior in general. There are different circumstances in a bear attack depending of the type of bear, whether the bear is startled or looking for a meal. This book explains eveything for you, even how to recognize the tracks of the different bears. The author is careful not to make assumptions and speculations, but just to present known facts and conclusions. He won't say that a certain response to a bear attack will or will not always work, but just how it has worked in the past. I would be interested to know about Polar Bear attacks, which is not covered in the book.
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Summary: informative scientific review
Review: This is a great book. I love to hike in bear country and feel much more prepared now that I have read it. Herrero presents his data in both a scientific and honest way careful not to overstate what we do or don't know about bears. He is clearly the world's authority on bear behavior as he has been on site after nearly every bear attack in north america in the past 30 years. He describes in detail (often gorry but necessarily so) what happened in each account and provides a critique of what the injured did or did not do correctly in the given situation. Clearly anyone who reads this book will be better prepared to enter bear country with both respect for bears and how to avoid confrontation. I highly recommend this book.
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