{"product_id":"the-bear-doesnt-know-9781496226068","title":"The Bear Doesnt Know","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Bear Doesn’t Know\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Bear Doesn’t Know\u003c\/i\u003e with many of his own quirky tales of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Readable, enlightening and genuinely entertaining, Schullery navigates easily between being conversational and deeply knowledgeable because of his background, experience and research. Rooted 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, \u003ci\u003eRoundup Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eInternational Bear News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eAnchorage Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is ideal for those who wish a more realistic glimpse of this wonderous creature.\"—J. Kemper Campbell, \u003ci\u003eLincoln Journal Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eThe National Parks: America’s Best Idea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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. \u003ci\u003eThe Bear Doesn’t Know\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eThe Bear Doesn’t Know\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Bear Doesn’t Know\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful read that stays with you long after you turn the last page.”—Todd Wilkinson, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eGrizzlies of Pilgrim Creek: An Intimate Portrait of 399, The Most Famous Bear of Greater Yellowstone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Preface: Bear Stories and the Art of the Memoir\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Yellowstone\u003cbr\u003e 1. Early Bears\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Bear Doesn’t Know\u003cbr\u003e 3. Arts and Craps\u003cbr\u003e 4. Nervous Neighbors\u003cbr\u003e 5. Almost My Favorite Bear Story\u003cbr\u003e 6. Bears at the Door\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Bears at Home\u003cbr\u003e 7. Something Like Bear Hunting\u003cbr\u003e 8. Embryonic Journeys\u003cbr\u003e 9. Ferocious Beasts\u003cbr\u003e 10. Bear Attacks: An Appreciation\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Question Answered\u003cbr\u003e 12. On Skipping The Revenant\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Alaska\u003cbr\u003e 13. Denali Days\u003cbr\u003e 14. Brooks Bears\u003cbr\u003e 15. Waiting\u003cbr\u003e 16. Back to Scary Hill\u003cbr\u003e 17. Grizzly Dreams\u003cbr\u003e Part 4. The Literary Bear\u003cbr\u003e 18. Bear Books\u003cbr\u003e 19. Trailblazers\u003cbr\u003e 20. Early Experts\u003cbr\u003e 21. Myths, Legends, and a Bear of Very Little Brain\u003cbr\u003e 22. The Modern Sensibility \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: A Word from the Bear\u003cbr\u003e Sources\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409236402519,"sku":"9781496226068","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496226068.jpg?v=1730506082","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-bear-doesnt-know-9781496226068","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}