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Brian Payton’s work has appeared in The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, and Canadian Geographic. He lives with his wife in Vancouver.
Beginning with a dream in which he teaches a bespectacled bear to read, journalist and novelist Payton (Hail Mary Corner) chronicles eight worldwide adventures he took to see a variety of bears in their natural habitat and understand their "political, economic, and cultural environments," delivering an extremely satisfying and sometimes provocative read. His accounts of his travels always present engrossing information on a range of topics, such as the politics of Chinese panda preservation, the squalid living conditions of the endangered Cambodian sun bear and the struggle to protect the Italian brown bear from the results of financial mismanagement at national parks. Each chapter is nicely structured and displays investigative skill; Payton's concern for environmental issues never gets in the way of his reporting. His final chapter on the American brown bears of the Colorado Plateau stylishly concludes with a moving meeting with a Navajo medicine man, who helps Payton understand that his dream and his subsequent travels are signs that he has a responsibility to tell his stories in respectful acknowledgment of the "the spirit of the bear." b&w illus. (July)
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- PublisherBloomsbury
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0670044091
- ISBN 13 9780670044092
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good, Not Price Clipped. Canadian First. Complete number line from 1 to 10; signed by Brian Payton on the title page with no inscription; some edge wear to boards and dust jacket; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition. Signed by Author(s). Book. Seller Inventory # 004351
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