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Title: Grizzly Years : In Search of the American Wilderness by Doug Peacock ISBN: 0-8050-4543-0 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 April, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I did not want this book to end! Beyond Terrific!!!!
Comment: After reading so much of Edward Abby, I discovered this book through a friend and after two years, I still thank him for telling me about The Grizzly Years. Doug Peacock's writing was not only captivating and inspiring, it was also picturesque. Mr. Peacock, I know nothing about you really, but should you ever read this be happy to know that there are a lot of river guides, wildlife biologists, and mountain guides working in the wilderness in central Idaho that have seen Grizzly and have read your book and appreciate you, your books, the bears, and your attitude. Thank you!
Rating: 4
Summary: There are few like him anymore.
Comment: My interest was piqued by Jack Turner's "Abstract Wild" which stands alone as the most intense and vital book written on the experience of wildness. From Turner's comments I ventured to buy a copy of Peacock's book "Grizzly Years" even after having read some of the negative comments I found in the reviews given. There is some truth to these comments but they are far outweiged by honesty and boldness of the experiences of Doug Peacock throughout his `Grizzly Years' which of course are not simply the years Peacock spent studying and living near Grizzlies but rather the years of his own transformation from out of the nightmare that was the Vietnam War. I don't think it is an accident that as one proceeds through the book, which is interspersed with Vietnam war experiences, these experiences no longer command the full attention of Peacock as his healing takes place. More and more he assumes the life of a person living in the moment and can pass by the old nightmares for the realness of his life now. No doubt writing this book itself was a part of his cleaning out process and the leaving behind of past lives because they are no longer necessary. Rather than being excerpts to attract or hold the attention they are an integral part of the story, first the very real and immensly powerful experience of combat and the ever present horror of suffering which is always there confronting him, making his life moments which are full of life or death and nothing in between. Peacock came back no longer interested in anything except moment which involved life and death situations and the Grizzly offered just such an opportunity, being unpredictable, dangerous and fully capable of killing any human being, but choosing not to, the bears formed the backbone of his life for many years until gradually he found not only fear and danger and the vitality of life but also the beauty seemingly hidden in each moment no matter how perilous. Slowly Peacock finds his way back to earth so to speak and yet greatly transformed and his meeting Lisa, his wife to be, helped in the process.
Peacock talks of bears as they truly are, far from the attention seeking, sensationalistic presentations of some so called nature programs which concentrate on the alienation of people from nature rather than allowing for the linkage that can take place as the human being realises he is part of the whole, that is, part not a piece of. Peacock's honesty and forthrightness is impressive, Terry Tempest Williams knows what she is talking about when she says the book does not lie.
Unlike some who attempt to make the animal into some sort of cute creature to be oggled at and petted Peacock never forgets the bears are other and yet not altogether that different, he gives them the freedom to be themselves not only by being as inconspicuous as he can but also in his own mind.
There are few like him anymore.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of a kind
Comment: I came across this book after hiking in Glacier NP and seeing a griz, and stopping in Cody Wy and hearing about a griz sighting there. Other reviews describing this gem are accurate, but I have to say that Peacock is a man whose contribution to grizzly awareness will not be surpassed. I have read this several times, along with Ghost Grizzlies, by Petersen; Lost Grizzlies, by Rick Bass(possibly the best outdoor writer since Thoreau); and The Abstract Wild, by Turner. Each of these is important and all of them are must reads.No one will ever come close to duplicating the type of life Peacock has led; this tells of an odyssey that is heroic.We just don't get to know people like him, because he hasn't got time for us.Too bad he hasn't written more. I would give this 10 stars if I could.........
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Title: The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner ISBN: 0816516995 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Ghost Grizzlies: Does the Great Bear Still Haunt Colorado? by David Petersen, Doug Peacock ISBN: 1555662188 Publisher: Johnson Books Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Among Grizzlies by Jewel Palovak, Timothy Treadwell ISBN: 0345426053 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 02 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Lost Grizzlies : A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado by Rick Bass ISBN: 0395857007 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 18 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Learning to Talk Bear: So Bears Can Listen by Roland Cheek ISBN: 0918981026 Publisher: Skyline Publishing Company Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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