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Summary: I have never enjoyed a book as much as this one!
Review: I purchased this book on a recent trip to Wyoming. I heard about it in a local newspaper. It was spell binding from the first page. I had a hard time putting the book down after I started reading it. The book is very well written. This man has a talent of putting thoughts into words that put you in the very place he is describing along with the individuals involved. It is very descriptive. Every view point is touched upon. Not only do you feel the pain of the people who were involved in the attacks but you also feel the bears state of mind. I have GREAT respect, more so now then ever since I read this book, for both Grizzly and Black Bears. I know I am entering their world and must change my way of thinking upon doing so. This book also teaches you how to avoid being attacked and what to do/not do in the face of an attack...very informative. I haven't been able to keep this book to myself since I purchase it....everyone else wants to read it... I Hope this author writes another soon. I will be camping in Glacier Park Montana for two weeks in September 99.........
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Summary: I liked the book alot.
Review: I read this book while in the middle of grizzly country which at first I did not think was a very good idea because of the fear it would probably instill. It ended up making me less fearful of the mighty creature and more understanding of its vital link to the intricate web of life. I highly recommend it as an interesting an eye-opening book.
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Summary: An outstanding work
Review: In June of 1997 my son and I saw a female Grizzly with a cub cross the Gibbon River in Yellowstone. Watching this bear was a cap to a glorious day of fishing with a 15 year old boy. Now I am reasonably certain that we were watching bear 264, a habituated bear, that featured prominently in one chapter of this book. I know now that we did most of the right things to do when confronted by a grizzly at 100 yards. I also know how foolish a group of Japanese tourists were when they approached 264 as my son and I backed away. For all of us who spend time in the back country, or would like to, this book is about a lot more than bear attacks. This book is about the relationship between man and this magnificent creature.Number 264 was the third grizzly I have encountered in Yellowstone. The stories in the book are often about friends or friends of friends. All of us share a wonder about these animals. Thanks to Scott McMillion I hope that she will not be the last of th! ese incredible animals that I encounter. As said in the book, you are more alive because of those bears!
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Summary: Great Book - Truthful
Review: It takes a skilled writer to keep me so absorbed in a book. I applaud McMillion for knowing the right bear book hadn't been written yet and that he could do it. I also appreciate the knowledge I picked up about bear behavior - never look `em in the eye!
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Summary: Powerful and riveting stories
Review: It takes a skilled writer to keep me so absorbed in a book. I applaud McMillion for knowing the right bear book hadn't been written yet and that he could do it. I also appreciate the knowledge I picked up about bear behavior - never look 'em in the eye!
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Summary: Great Book - Truthful
Review: Just wanted to say what a great bear attack book. I hike in bear country, and it's always helpful to be reminded what does happen. Also, just wanted to comment that I personally know Joe Heimer, in the story "Warm Spell", and that the author's account of this attack was relayed in the book exactly as Joe told of the account to me, so I have to believe that each of the stories were researched and written with the same attention to detail. Great for anyone going into bear country!!
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Summary: By Far The Best New Book On Bear Attacks
Review: Mark of the Grizzly is an excellent choice for anyone that loves the outdoors.... whether it is hiking/fishing in the backcountry, visiting national parks, or just an interest in bears, this will be one of the best books you ever read on the subject. Once I started reading, i couldn't put it back down. Not only is the book entertaining, it is also educational. McMillion reveals numerous ways of decreasing the chance of being mauled by a bear while in the backcountry and what you should do in case you're one of the unlucky ones. I have read nearly all of the books on bear attacks released within the past 20 years, and I'd have to say this one ranks right at the top.
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Summary: Sure to become a "classic bear read".
Review: Scott McMillion's "Mark of the Grizzly" is a very good bear book. As a man who has been interested in bears for many years, a man who has observed many bears in the wild for many years, and as a man who hunts black bears with primitive, single shot, muzzleloading rifles, I came to this book with many opinions of my own. McMillion anticipated my ever comment, my every question and my every objection. He responded to each of them and then he went on to teach me things I didn't know about bears. This is an important book because it is a great study of the relationship between brown bears and man. But it is also an important book because as the human population grows and we edge out wildlife, and especially potentially dangerous wildlife, it may become one of the only reliable books on the kind of man/bear encounters described within its pages. Such encounters have been a big part of human history. I had my local library buy this book for me. I read the book and now I am going to buy a copy for my home. If you have an interest in bears, this is a book you should read and own. Incidentally Scott, If you're out there and you come across this post: A) Congratulations. B) Bears DO respond to a "dinner bell". C) Drop me a line sometime and I'll tell you a local bear story I heard recently.
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Summary: if it take blood and guts stories . . .
Review: Since I already own 18 books about grizzly bears I was a little reluctant to purchase this one. . after all grizzly books about attacks are usually counter productive to getting along with or understanding bears. The girl in the bookstore in Whitefish Montana assured me this one was different and she was right. People are starting to understand the big bears well enough to get along with them and even though this author spent too much time in the actual injuries and recoveries for my taste, he did give great up to date advice for people venturing into griz country and if it takes blood and guts stories for people to get the nessages about how to act around bears then so be it. I read the book on the edge of Glacier Park with a fresh pile of grizzly scat outside our door, and it made me more careful but I still think the most vicious dangerous animal in Montana is the mosquito . . they never give a bluff charge!!! Now if we can only get irresponsible people like those who made that bad movie "The edge" to read a well researched unbaised book like this before they scare us all silly, the bears will have a chance.
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Summary: Great Read..and even better information
Review: The immense benefit of this book for the hiker or woodsman is obvious. Here you'll find examples of mistakes and misunderstandings which ineveitably led, as shown by McMillions' careful retrospective analysis, to serious maulings and fatalities. His discussion of the psychology of both bear and victim can enable much safer sojourns into the wilderness. But the book isn't only for those most likely to encounter these magnificent animals. Even for those of us who live in the city, reading the book illustrates the great, atavistic fear which all of us might somehow carry in genetic memory. You need only experience the hair rising on the back of your neck as you read these accounts to understand how deep this feeling runs in all of us. For myself, it took only a chance encounter with a paltry black bear rummaging around the trashcans outside my tent to bring this home. I spent the rest of the night trembling with unused adrenaline in my husbands arms. Where did this fear come from? Someoplace I never knew existed, I assure you. But remember, one childhood psychology study I read said most children spontaneously begin to exhibit, at about the age of three, a deep, abiding fear of the dark woods.
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