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 ...
The Grizzly King: A Romance of the Wild is a work by a wonderful American writer and wildlife activist, James Oliver Curwood.In the Canadian north, in severe and almost inaccessible places, a giant bear Thor meets a little bear cub Muskwa, ...
It was the inspiration for the director Jean-Jacques Annaud's 1988 film L'Ours, known in North America as The Bear.It is the story of a mighty grizzly and a motherless bear cub who become companions in the Canadian wilderness.
The Grizzly King centers on the majestic grizzly bear and the hunters that doggedly pursue it. The novel is a must-read for nature lovers and fans of authors like Jack London.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
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 ...
James Oliver Curwood (1878-1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His adventure writing followed in the tradition of Jack London. Like London, Curwood set many of his works in the wilds of the Great White North.
At a distance of a third or a half a mile he could make out a goat or a mountain sheep, but beyond that his world was a vast sun-filled or night-darkened mystery through which he ranged mostly by the guidance of sound and smell.
With the silence and immobility of a great reddish-tinted rock, Thor stood for many minutes looking out over his domain. He could not see far, for, like all grizzlies, his...
The book shows the author's intimate understanding and empathy with the bears, and wild animals in general.
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 ...
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 ...
The Grizzly King: A Romance of the Wild by James Curwood Oliver, first published in 1918, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of...