Alaska Bear Tales

by Larry Kaniut

Overview

"Alaska Bear Tales" is a best-selling collection of edge-of-your-seat accounts of true-life encounters with bears in Alaska.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780882402321
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	06/01/2003
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	5.36(w) x 8.34(h) x 0.71(d)
Lexile:	1090L (what's this?)

About the Author

Larry Kaniut is the bestselling author of "Alaska Bear Tales," His other books include "Some Bears Kill" and "Danger Stalks the Land," His stories have appeared in "Outdoor Life," "Outdoor America," "Anchorage Times," and "Alaska Magazine," and he has appeared numerous times on national television and radio shows, including Good Morning America and G. Gordon Liddy's show. He has been an Alaska resident since 1966.
Co-editor Denise Little worked with Spike Walker on "Alaska: Tales of Adventure from the Last Frontier,"

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
	The Brownie (Grizzly) is Big and Tough	5
	They'll Attack Without Warning	17
	They're Unpredictable	29
	Some Will Charge, Some Will Bluff	45
	They'll Really Maul You	57
	They Will Kill	81
	Which Is The Tougher?	101
	"Come Quick! I'm Being Eaten by a Bear!"	113
	A Boy is Blinded	125
	Nanook - The Ice Bear	135
	Some Are Plain Nuisances	145
	They Can Be Funny	167
	Some Tales Are Odd, Some Are Just Tall	183
	Bows, Slingshots and Boomsticks	207
	You Do A Lot Of Thinking	223
	What The Doctors Say	237
	A Few Rules-Plenty of Caution and Common Sense	249
	Some Final Advice	277
	Ursulaneous	287
	The Bear's Future In Alaska	297
	Alaskan Bear Harvest Reports	303
	Bibliography	305
	Index	314