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Summary: A Superb Read!!
Review: Lost Grizzlies is a superb read! Rick Bass is fast becoming (may already be) our premier writer of the american wilderness. Bass' descriptions of the books characters and the wilds of the San Juan Mountains of Colorado are vivid. I enjoyed Bass' descriptions of Doug Peacock's brilliance and brutishness. I enjoyed reading ABOUT Peacock almost as much as I enjoyed reading Peacock's book (Grizzly Years).
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Summary: Impassioned and gripping
Review: Rick Bass does it again! This book, as much a character desription of grizzly expert Doug Peacock as it is a search for supposedly extinct grizzly bears in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, is a great triumph. The story is compelling, the language is beautiful, and the search itself is important. Truly, our attitude toward grizzly bears must be a direct reflection of our attitude toward ourselves. Although sometimes Bass gets a little heavy-handed with his metaphors--we probably could figure out that Doug Peacock has many grizzly-like traits without his coming out and telling us--his plea for the protection and defense of grizzlies is compelling, believeable, and genuine. A wonderful read.
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Summary: An insightful look at the "ghosts" of San Juan mountains
Review: Rick Bass gave us hope that these grizzlies are still out there in the San Juan mountains. The narrative gave us an insightful look into a place that grizzlies may safely be hidden away from man.
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Summary: Outstanding venture into Nature to learn of bears and man.
Review: Rick Bass takes us into the mountains of Colorado not just on a search for grizzlies, but, with his stream of consciousness narrative, helps us feel the affinity of man as he goes back to Nature's bosom. Actually sighting the grizzlies becomes of secondary importance to feeling at one with nature much in the same way the bears do. To help us understand that we two species - at the top of the food chain - also share a need for survival
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Summary: Rick is one of the best all time naturalist authors.
Review: The Lost Grizzlies is full of colorful descriptions of its characters, the enviornment and its inhabitants with each brought together as one, and how important it is for the grizzlies to remain a part of our environment.. When I'm looking for a good read that lets me move closer to nature, I look for a Rick Bass book. Entertaining as well as informative
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Summary: Not his best work.
Review: This book continues Bass' string of engaging, vivid stories concerning his journeys in the American West. What lessens this book somewhat is an atypical harshness towrds people. When Bass and his compatriots encounter private property in the wilderness, they respond by littering! Perhaps it was the company he kept during this time, but this novel was a bit too testosterone driven for my tastes. Read The Ninemile Wolves, instead.
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Summary: I Believe It Was a Grizzly
Review: This book is a unique combination of comedy, real-life adventure and a luminous testimony to one of America's most endangered and mythical beasts. Bass is at his best here, capturing the hearts of his readers through an alternately hilarious and spine tingling account of his journey into the Colorado mountains in search of grizzly bears. The problem facing Bass and his two friends is that the grizzly bear is believed to be extinct in Colorado. However, several undocumented sightings and signs have convinced them that the bears exist in the remotest regions of the mountain range. Thus they are out to do all they can to locate bears and document their findings. In the resulting adventures we find the three companions trapsing through woods, sliding down canyon walls, confronting bureaucrats and tracking down bear sign. Things are complicated, and given a distinctly uneasy quality, by the behavior of Doug Peacock. Peacock, himself a well-known author and champion of the grizzly bear, is plagued by frequent and dramatic mood swings. His alarmingly volatile temper, moments of intense introspection and frequent outbursts of graphic profanity have the reader feeling like he/she is walking on eggshells. Because Bass has done such a good job of describing his friend, and how he came to be the way he is, it's easy to forgive Peacock his peculiar behavior. However, it is not easy or pleasant to read. As the story unfolds, and the three men get closer to their goal, the tension becomes almost unbearable. When Bass finally sees a bear, after months of exhausting effort and disappointment, the scene unfolds in classic Bass technicolor with heart racing clarity and insight. "When I am ten yards from that fallen tree - which I am all but ignoring, focusing on the deer - a creature leaps up from behind it, seemingly right in my face, a brown creature with great hunched shoulders. It's a bear with a big head, and for the smallest fraction of time our eyes meet. The bear's round brown eyes are wild in alarm, and mine the same or larger, I'm sure. The bear's rich chocolate color, like a moose and nearly as big, an animal of such immense size that indeed my first thought, the one right before fear, is: That bear's as big as a moose!" I won't ruin the suspense by telling you what happens next. It should be enough to know that Bass neither disappoints nor fails to find deeper currents of truth running beneath his experience. This is another book that shouldn't be missed. Just don't expect it to reveal its gifts easily.
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