Eight Bears (eBook)

Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

Gloria Dickie (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
272 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-1-324-00509-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A Best Book of the Year in The New Yorker, Economist, and Science NewsA Scientific American Best Staff ReadShortlisted for the Banff Centre Mountain Book Awards"e;Vivid and engrossing. [A] celebration of beardom."e; Richard Adams Carey, Wall Street JournalA global exploration of the eight remaining species of bearsand the dangers they face.Bears have always held a central place in our collective memory, from Indigenous folklore and Greek mythology to nineteenth-century fairytales and the modern toy shop. But as humans and bears come into ever-closer contact, our relationship nears a tipping point. Today, most of the eight remaining bear species are threatened with extinction. Some, such as the panda bear and the polar bear, are icons of the natural world; others, such as the spectacled bear and the sloth bear, are far less known.In Eight Bears, journalist Gloria Dickie embarks on a globe-trotting journey to explore each bears story, whisking readers from the cloud forests of the Andes to the ice floes of the Arctic; from the jungles of India to the backwoods of the Rocky Mountain West. She meets with key figures on the frontlines of modern conservation effortsthe head of a rescue center for sun and moon bears freed from bile farms, a biologist known as Papa Panda, who has led Chinas panda-breeding efforts for almost four decades, a conservationist retraining a military radar system to detect and track polar bears near townsto reveal the unparalleled challenges bears face as they contend with a rapidly changing climate and encroaching human populations.Weaving together ecology, history, mythology, and a captivating account of her travels and observations, Dickie offers a closer look at our volatile relationship with these magnificent mammals. Engrossing and deeply reported, Eight Bears delivers a clear warning for what we risk losing if we dont learn to live alongside the animals that have shaped our cultures, geographies, and stories.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.7.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 8 illustrations; 2 maps
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Asiatic black bear • black bear • BROWN BEAR • climate change • conservation • Ecology • Greek Mythology • Grizzly Bear • indigenous folklore • moon bear • Panda • Polar bear • sloth bear • spectacled bear • Sun Bear
• ISBN-10: 1-324-00509-2 / 1324005092
• ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00509-4 / 9781324005094