Author: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Publisher: New York : Morrow Junior Books
ISBN: 9780688137670
Category : Bears
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gives information about polar bears which inhabit the Arctic regions of Russia, Norway, Canada, the United States, Denmark, and Greenland and discusses their relationships with humans.
Great Ice Bear
Author: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Publisher: New York : Morrow Junior Books
ISBN: 9780688137670
Category : Bears
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gives information about polar bears which inhabit the Arctic regions of Russia, Norway, Canada, the United States, Denmark, and Greenland and discusses their relationships with humans.
Publisher: New York : Morrow Junior Books
ISBN: 9780688137670
Category : Bears
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Gives information about polar bears which inhabit the Arctic regions of Russia, Norway, Canada, the United States, Denmark, and Greenland and discusses their relationships with humans.
Ice Bear
Author: Nicola Davies
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406364644
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Huge, magnificent, alone, the bear moves through the frozen Arctic. Powerful hunter, tender mother, gentle playmate - it shares this land of ice and snow with the Inuit people, who watch and learn from it. Come witness the majesty of Ice Bear.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781406364644
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Huge, magnificent, alone, the bear moves through the frozen Arctic. Powerful hunter, tender mother, gentle playmate - it shares this land of ice and snow with the Inuit people, who watch and learn from it. Come witness the majesty of Ice Bear.
Ice Bear
Author: Michael Engelhard
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295999233
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fascination. Humans have seen it as spirit guide and fanged enemy, as trade good and moral metaphor, as food source and symbol of ecological crisis. Eight thousand years of artifacts attest to its charisma, and to the fraught relationships between our two species. In the White Bear, we acknowledge the magic of wildness: it is both genuinely itself and a screen for our imagination. Ice Bear traces and illuminates this intertwined history. From Inuit shamans to Jean Harlow lounging on a bearskin rug, from the cubs trained to pull sleds toward the North Pole to cuddly superstar Knut, it all comes to life in these pages. With meticulous research and more than 160 illustrations, the author brings into focus this powerful and elusive animal. Doing so, he delves into the stories we tell about Nature—and about ourselves—hoping for a future in which such tales still matter.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295999233
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fascination. Humans have seen it as spirit guide and fanged enemy, as trade good and moral metaphor, as food source and symbol of ecological crisis. Eight thousand years of artifacts attest to its charisma, and to the fraught relationships between our two species. In the White Bear, we acknowledge the magic of wildness: it is both genuinely itself and a screen for our imagination. Ice Bear traces and illuminates this intertwined history. From Inuit shamans to Jean Harlow lounging on a bearskin rug, from the cubs trained to pull sleds toward the North Pole to cuddly superstar Knut, it all comes to life in these pages. With meticulous research and more than 160 illustrations, the author brings into focus this powerful and elusive animal. Doing so, he delves into the stories we tell about Nature—and about ourselves—hoping for a future in which such tales still matter.
Ice Walker
Author: James Raffan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501155385
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
From bestselling author James Raffan comes an enlightening and original story about a polar bear’s precarious existence in the changing Arctic, reminiscent of John Vaillant’s The Golden Spruce. Nanurjuk, “the bear-spirited one,” is hunting for seals on Hudson Bay, where ice never lasts more than one season. For her and her young, everything is in flux. From the top of the world, Hudson Bay looks like an enormous paw print on the torso of the continent, and through a vast network of lakes and rivers, this bay connects to oceans across the globe. Here, at the heart of everything, walks Nanurjuk, or Nanu, one polar bear among the six thousand that traverse the 1.23 million square kilometers of ice and snow covering the bay. For millennia, Nanu’s ancestors have roamed this great expanse, living, evolving, and surviving alongside human beings in one of the most challenging and unforgiving habitats on earth. But that world is changing. In the Arctic’s lands and waters, oil has been extracted—and spilled. As global temperatures have risen, the sea ice that Nanu and her young need to hunt seal and fish has melted, forcing them to wait on land where the delicate balance between them and their two-legged neighbors has now shifted. This is the icescape that author and geographer James Raffan invites us to inhabit in Ice Walker. In precise and provocative prose, he brings readers inside Nanu’s world as she treks uncertainly around the heart of Hudson Bay, searching for nourishment for the children that grow inside her. She stops at nothing to protect her cubs from the dangers she can see—other bears, wolves, whales, human beings—and those she cannot. By focusing his lens on this bear family, Raffan closes the gap between humans and bears, showing us how, like the water of the Hudson Bay, our existence—and our future—is tied to Nanu’s. He asks us to consider what might be done about this fragile world before it is gone for good. Masterful, vivid, and haunting, Ice Walker is an utterly unique piece of creative nonfiction and a deeply affecting call to action.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501155385
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
From bestselling author James Raffan comes an enlightening and original story about a polar bear’s precarious existence in the changing Arctic, reminiscent of John Vaillant’s The Golden Spruce. Nanurjuk, “the bear-spirited one,” is hunting for seals on Hudson Bay, where ice never lasts more than one season. For her and her young, everything is in flux. From the top of the world, Hudson Bay looks like an enormous paw print on the torso of the continent, and through a vast network of lakes and rivers, this bay connects to oceans across the globe. Here, at the heart of everything, walks Nanurjuk, or Nanu, one polar bear among the six thousand that traverse the 1.23 million square kilometers of ice and snow covering the bay. For millennia, Nanu’s ancestors have roamed this great expanse, living, evolving, and surviving alongside human beings in one of the most challenging and unforgiving habitats on earth. But that world is changing. In the Arctic’s lands and waters, oil has been extracted—and spilled. As global temperatures have risen, the sea ice that Nanu and her young need to hunt seal and fish has melted, forcing them to wait on land where the delicate balance between them and their two-legged neighbors has now shifted. This is the icescape that author and geographer James Raffan invites us to inhabit in Ice Walker. In precise and provocative prose, he brings readers inside Nanu’s world as she treks uncertainly around the heart of Hudson Bay, searching for nourishment for the children that grow inside her. She stops at nothing to protect her cubs from the dangers she can see—other bears, wolves, whales, human beings—and those she cannot. By focusing his lens on this bear family, Raffan closes the gap between humans and bears, showing us how, like the water of the Hudson Bay, our existence—and our future—is tied to Nanu’s. He asks us to consider what might be done about this fragile world before it is gone for good. Masterful, vivid, and haunting, Ice Walker is an utterly unique piece of creative nonfiction and a deeply affecting call to action.
The Great White Bear
Author: Kieran Mulvaney
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547504764
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This “up-close [and] graceful account” of the polar bear combines historical accounts, research, and the author’s own encounters in the Arctic (Kirkus Reviews). Polar bears are creatures of paradox: They are white bears whose skin is black; massive predators who can walk almost silently; Arctic residents whose major problem is not staying warm, but keeping cool. Fully grown they can measure ten feet and weigh close to two thousand pounds, but at birth they are just twenty ounces. Human encounters with these legendary creatures can be both exhilarating and terrifying. Tales throughout history describe the ferocity of polar bear attacks on humans. But human hunters have exacted a far larger toll, obliging Arctic nations to try to protect their region’s iconic species before it’s too late. Now another threat to the polar bears’ survival has emerged, one that is steadily destroying sea ice and the life it supports. Without this habitat, polar bears cannot exist. The Great White Bear celebrates the story of this unique species. Through a blend of history, myth, personal observations, and scientific accounts, Kieran Mulvaney tells the story of the polar bear: its history, its life, and its uncertain fate.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547504764
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This “up-close [and] graceful account” of the polar bear combines historical accounts, research, and the author’s own encounters in the Arctic (Kirkus Reviews). Polar bears are creatures of paradox: They are white bears whose skin is black; massive predators who can walk almost silently; Arctic residents whose major problem is not staying warm, but keeping cool. Fully grown they can measure ten feet and weigh close to two thousand pounds, but at birth they are just twenty ounces. Human encounters with these legendary creatures can be both exhilarating and terrifying. Tales throughout history describe the ferocity of polar bear attacks on humans. But human hunters have exacted a far larger toll, obliging Arctic nations to try to protect their region’s iconic species before it’s too late. Now another threat to the polar bears’ survival has emerged, one that is steadily destroying sea ice and the life it supports. Without this habitat, polar bears cannot exist. The Great White Bear celebrates the story of this unique species. Through a blend of history, myth, personal observations, and scientific accounts, Kieran Mulvaney tells the story of the polar bear: its history, its life, and its uncertain fate.
Polar Bear
Author: Stephen Person
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1617721298
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Provides information about polar bears, including how they survive in their Artic environment, how they hunt, stay warm, and raise their babies.
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1617721298
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Provides information about polar bears, including how they survive in their Artic environment, how they hunt, stay warm, and raise their babies.
Ice Bear
Author: Steven Kazlowski
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 1594854866
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
This title presents a collection of photographs by acclaimed 'polar bear photographer' Steven Kazlowski. Featuring mostly never-before-published images, this simple yet evocative book explores the polar bear's Arctic home and life cycle.
Publisher: The Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 1594854866
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
This title presents a collection of photographs by acclaimed 'polar bear photographer' Steven Kazlowski. Featuring mostly never-before-published images, this simple yet evocative book explores the polar bear's Arctic home and life cycle.
The Lonely Polar Bear
Author: Khoa Le
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607656868
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
This sweet children’s picture book presents a moving story, set in a fragile Arctic world threatened by global warming. Featuring exceptionally beautiful illustrations, The Lonely Polar Bear offers an accessible way to introduce children to climate change issues.
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607656868
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
This sweet children’s picture book presents a moving story, set in a fragile Arctic world threatened by global warming. Featuring exceptionally beautiful illustrations, The Lonely Polar Bear offers an accessible way to introduce children to climate change issues.
The Ice Bear Miracle
Author: Cerrie Burnell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192767561
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Somewhere in the deep and frozen north is an island surrounded entirely by ice. The inhabitants love their snowstorm isle - with its scattered wooden cottages, its small patches of forest, and its single mountain peak. Most of all they love the magnificent ice bears that roam the streets,giving the island its name - The Isle of Bears.Life with bears is dangerous, as Marv Jackson knows - the large crescent moon shaped scar on his face acts as a constant reminder of the night he survived a bear attack. But something tells him the legendary tale of that night, isn't quite the full story, and that the truth lies with a mysteriousskating girl and her magnificent polar bear.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192767561
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Somewhere in the deep and frozen north is an island surrounded entirely by ice. The inhabitants love their snowstorm isle - with its scattered wooden cottages, its small patches of forest, and its single mountain peak. Most of all they love the magnificent ice bears that roam the streets,giving the island its name - The Isle of Bears.Life with bears is dangerous, as Marv Jackson knows - the large crescent moon shaped scar on his face acts as a constant reminder of the night he survived a bear attack. But something tells him the legendary tale of that night, isn't quite the full story, and that the truth lies with a mysteriousskating girl and her magnificent polar bear.
White Bear, Ice Bear
Author: Joanne Ryder
Publisher: New York : Morrow Junior Books
ISBN: 9780688071745
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Describes the awakening, feeding, and wandering of a polar bear, from its own viewpoint.
Publisher: New York : Morrow Junior Books
ISBN: 9780688071745
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Describes the awakening, feeding, and wandering of a polar bear, from its own viewpoint.