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Title: Polar Bears: Living With the White Bear by Nikita Ovsyanikov ISBN: 0-89658-426-7 Publisher: Voyageur Press Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Engaging storyteller, zealot proponent of Ursus Maritimus
Comment: This is the book for you if the imagery of Barry Lopez's Artic Dreams captured you. Dr. Ovsyanikov hung out with Bering population of Polar Bears, notably Wrangel and Hearld Island. A drawback is that there are only glimpses of the life cycle of the Polar Bear in his spring-fall trips he chronicles. In addition the most accessable bear population is trivially mentioned in one page (Churchill). So, this is a secular book, extraordinarily entertaining and full of facts and de-mystifying of the general ideas held of Polar Bear behavior, but of bears in only one part of the artic. It does stand alone as an appeal to understand these great mammals. Like grizzlies, these are individuals, and must be treated as such. Great work, Dr. Ovsyanikov!
Rating: 4
Summary: Polar Wonders
Comment: I devoured this book while traveling on a two-day business trip. Ovsyanikov's writing is clean and easy to read. His photographs are beautiful and revealing. Most importantly, he dispels many myths about the "beast" of the north and replaces them with hard won insights.
As a scientist, Ovsyanikov does this by careful and sometimes brave experimentation and patient observation. I suspect that he may be the only person on the planet willing to stand up to a charging polar bear to assert his "dominance." He shares his love for the white bear and his concern for their future wellbeing. In these and other ways, he reminds me of Dian Fossey.
Anyone seeking to expand his or her knowledge of our natural world will treasure this wonderful book.
Rating: 4
Summary: New knowledge displaces polar bear myths
Comment: I devoured this book while traveling on a two-day business trip. Ovsyanikov's writing is clean and easy to read. His photographs are beautiful and revealing. Most importantly, he dispels many myths about the "beast" of the north and replaces them with hard won insights.
As a scientist, Ovsyanikov does this by careful and sometimes brave experimentation and patient observation. I suspect that he may be the only person on the planet willing to stand up to a charging polar bear to assert his "dominance." He shares his love for the white bear and his concern for their future wellbeing. In these and other ways, he reminds me of Dian Fossey
Anyone seeking to expand his or her knowledge of our natural world will treasure this wonderful book.
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Title: Polar Bears by Nikita Ovsyanikov, Jane Billinghurst ISBN: 0896583589 Publisher: Voyageur Press Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Polar Bears by Ian Stirling, Ian Sirling, Dan E. Guravich ISBN: 047208108X Publisher: University of Michigan Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The World of the Polar Bear by Norbert Rosing ISBN: 155209068X Publisher: Firefly Books Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: A Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic by E.C.. Pielou ISBN: 0226668142 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Polar Dance: Born of the North Wind by Thomas D. Mangelsen, Fred Bruemmer, Cara Blessley ISBN: 1890310034 Publisher: Images of Nature Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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