Bill Sherwonit

Alaska's Bears

Grizzlies, Black Bears, and Polar Bears, Revised Edition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A handy guidebook to the bears of Alaska, this informative book provides details on bear behaviors, yearly cycles, ecological niches, relations to humans, and more.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alaska Northwest Books
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 132mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9781943328598
• ISBN-10: 1943328595
• Artikelnr.: 44851968

Autorenporträt

For more than three decades, Anchorage-based writer Bill Sherwonit has written extensively about wilderness, the natural history of animals and plants, wildlife management, connection to place, conservation issues, and notions of wildness. He¿s contributed stories and photos to a wide variety of national publications and is the author of over a dozen books about Alaska, including To the Top of Denali and Animal Stories. He also teaches nature and travel writing in his adopted hometown of Anchorage.

Inhaltsangabe

BEAR COUNTRY Map THE POLAR BEAR Home on the Ice Map A Diet of Seals Mothers
and Their Dens Future of the Polar Bear THE BROWN BEAR/GRIZZLY BEAR
Surviving Winter Life as a Cub Opportunistic Omnivores Social Life Future
of the Brown Bear Tips for Traveling in Bear Country Is it a Brown Bear or
a Black Bear? THE BLACK BEAR A Creature of the Forest Building Fat Reserves
Into the Winter Den The Long Sleep The Young Bears Future of the Black Bear
VIEWING ALASKA¿S BEARS Prime Viewing Sites SUGGESTED READING INDEX