Set in late 19th-century British Columbia, Canada, an orphaned bear cub befriends a man as hunters pursue them through the wild. French director Jean-Jacques Annaud used this 1916 book as the basis for his film The Bear.
The Grizzly King
The Grizzly King: A Romance of the Wild is a 1916 novel by American author James Oliver Curwood. It was the inspiration for the director Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1988 film L'Ours, known in North America as The Bear.
The Grizzly King
The Grizzly King: A Romance of the Wild is a 1916 novel by American author James Oliver Curwood. It was the inspiration for the director Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1988 film L'Ours, known in North America as The Bear.
With the silence and immobility of a great reddish-tinted rock, Thor stood for many minutes looking out over his domain.
With the silence and immobility of a great reddish-tinted rock, Thor stood for many minutes looking out over his domain.
Thor is a grizzly bear that has never met any human beings, but no sooner does he smell the first, he gets hurt by their rifles, so he tries to run away from them and goes through the forest towards the highest mountains.
As in human life, there are tragedy, and humour, and pathos in the life of the wild; there are facts of tremendous interest, real happenings and real lives to be written about, and very small necessity for one to draw on imagination. (This ...
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there...
It is with something like a confession that I offer this second of my nature books to the public-a confession, and a hope; the confession of one who for years hunted and killed before he learned that the wild offered a more thrilling sport ...