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Never Look A Polar Bear In The Eye
Zac Unger
A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows
Da Capo Press
February 2013
On Sale: January 29, 2013
320 pages ISBN: 0306821168 EAN: 9780306821165 Kindle: B00AXS6B4S Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
“I like to go out for walks, but it’s a little awkward to
push the baby stroller and carry a shotgun at the same
time.”—housewife from Churchill, Manitoba Yes, welcome to Churchill, Manitoba. Year-round human
population: 943. Yet despite the isolation and the searing
cold here at the arctic’s edge, visitors from around the
globe flock to the town every fall, driven by a single
purpose: to see polar bears in the wild. Churchill is “The Polar Bear Capital of the World,” and for
one unforgettable “bear season,” Zac Unger, his wife, and
his three children moved from Oakland, California, to make
it their temporary home. But they soon discovered that it’s
really the polar bears who are at home in Churchill, roaming
past the coffee shop on the main drag, peering into garbage
cans, languorously scratching their backs against fence
posts and front doorways. Where kids in other towns receive
admonitions about talking to strangers, Churchill
schoolchildren get “Let’s All Be Bear Aware” booklets to
bring home. (Lesson number 8: Never explore bad-smelling areas.) Zac Unger takes readers on a spirited and often wildly funny
journey to a place as unique as it is remote, a place where
natives, tourists, scientists, conservationists, and the
most ferocious predators on the planet converge. In the
process he becomes embroiled in the controversy surrounding
“polar bear science”—and finds out that some of what we’ve
been led to believe about the bears’ imminent extinction may
not be quite the case. But mostly what he learns is about
human behavior in extreme situations . . . and also why you
should never even think of looking a polar bear in the eye.
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