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Bears, November 2007
Hardcover
A Brief History
Yale University Press
November 2007
On Sale: October 29, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 0300122993
EAN: 9780300122992
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Non-Fiction
This engaging book examines the shared history of people and
bears. Hopscotching through history, literature, and
science, Bernd Brunner presents a rich compendium of the
interactions between the two species and explores how bears
have become central figures in our inventory of myths and
dreams. He reveals the remarkable extent to which human
feelings about bears have been—and still are—mixed. People
have venerated, killed, caressed, tortured, nurtured, eaten,
worshipped, and despised bears. Interestingly, the varied
dealings of humans with bears raise the same question over
and again: do our images of bears have much in common with
the animal as it really is?
The book uncovers new and little-known stories and facts
about bears in European, North American, Japanese, Russian,
and South and Southeast Asian cultures. Taken together,
these perspectives show us new things about the animals we
thought we knew so well. Quirky and bizarre anecdotes,
scientific information on bears threatened with extinction
in some areas, a discussion of the phenomenon of
“bearanoia,” and more than one hundred historical
illustrations contribute to this unique account of the
shared history between bears and humans and the continuing
presence of bears in our personal and collective dreams.
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