Safe Travel in Bear Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Safe Travel in Bear Country write by Gary Brown. This book was released on 1996. Safe Travel in Bear Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What should you do when you encounter a bear? Should you run? Climb the nearest tree? Isn't it best to know the right answer before your life depends on it? Now there is one source to turn to for the correct answer to these questions and hundreds of others: SAFE TRAVEL IN BEAR COUNTRY.
A Year in the National Parks
A Year in the National Parks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Year in the National Parks write by Stefanie Payne. This book was released on 2018-05. A Year in the National Parks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On January 1 of 2016, Stefanie Payne, a creative professional working at NASA Headquarters, and Jonathan Irish, a photographer with National Geographic, left their lives in Washington, D.C. and hit the open road on an expedition to explore and document all 59 of America's national parks during the centennial celebration of the U.S. National Park Service - 59 parks in 52 weeks - the Greatest American Road Trip. Captured in more than 300,000 digital photographs, written stories, and videos shared by the national and international media, their project resulted in an incredible view of America's National Park System seen in its 100th year. 'A Year in the National Parks, The Greatest American Road Trip' is a gorgeous visual journey through our cherished public lands, detailing a rich tapestry of what makes each park special, as seen along an epic journey to visit them all within one special celebratory year.
Bear Attacks
Bear Attacks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bear Attacks write by Stephen Herrero. This book was released on 2018-04-01. Bear Attacks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What causes bear attacks? When should you play dead and when should you fight an attacking bear? What do we know about black and grizzly bears and how can this knowledge be used to avoid bear attacks? And, more generally, what is the bear’s future? Bear Attacks is a thorough and unflinching landmark study of the attacks made on men and women by the great grizzly and the occasionally deadly black bear. This is a book for everyone who hikes, camps, or visits bear country–and for anyone who wants to know more about these sometimes fearsome but always fascinating wild creatures.
Night of the Grizzlies
Night of the Grizzlies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Night of the Grizzlies write by Jack Olsen. This book was released on 1969. Night of the Grizzlies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Twenty-Ninth Day
The Twenty-Ninth Day - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Twenty-Ninth Day write by Alex Messenger. This book was released on 2021-11-30. The Twenty-Ninth Day available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive. This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the trip, while out hiking alone, Alex is attacked by a barren-ground grizzly. Left for dead, he wakes to find that his summer adventure has become a struggle to stay alive. Over the next hours and days, Alex and his companions tend his wounds and use their resilience, ingenuity, and dogged perseverance to reach help at a remote village a thousand miles north of the US-Canadian border. The Twenty-Ninth Day is a coming-of-age story like no other, filled with inspiring subarctic landscapes, thrilling riverine paddling, and a trial by fire of the human spirit.
