Grizzly Seasons: Life with the Brown Bears of Kamchatka [Hardcover]

Charlie Russell (Author), Maureen Enns (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 4, 2003

A photographic journey that redefines perceptions of bears.

Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns spent six summers in the remote wilderness of Kamchatka, Russia: home to the world's densest population of brown bears.

Grizzly Seasons tells the story of three bear cubs -- Chico, Biscuit and Rosie -- rescued from a zoo and reintroduced to the wild by Russell and Enns. The account traces the bear's development from dependant cubs to independent creatures of the wilderness.

Graced with more than 150 beautiful color photographs, including majestic aerial views, Grizzly Seasons closely follows the bears -- and the authors -- through six years of developing a self-sustaining, mutually-respectful relationship of trust.

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Editorial Reviews

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Brown bears, among the largest land-based carnivores, have earned the reputation of being dangerous to humans. Naturalist Russell and his partner Enns, an artist, felt that bears and humans have been deliberately trained to fear each other and wanted to do a study that involved living with bears in an area where the bears had had little contact with people. After much searching and negotiating, they ended up on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far east of Russia, home of one of the largest bear populations in the world. The duo built a cabin and spent some summers living with bears. The addition of three orphaned cubs, which the authors reared and rehabilitated to the wild, completed the study. The result is an extremely intimate look at the life of bears, as the cubs helped the authors to blend in with the local bears. Illustrated with Enns' beautiful close-up photographs, many of which are framed by the area's majestic scenery, this private look at the lives of wild bears is captivating. Nancy Bent
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The photos of the bears are so alive, readers feel they could reach out and touch these furry giants. (Mary Ann Grossmann St Paul Pioneer Press 20031123)

Filled with high quality photographs... interesting insights into the lives of grizzlies and their amazingly peaceful world... wonderfully delightful book. (Lara Ursin E-Streams )

A rich collection of photographs of bears hunting, loafing, growling; close-ups reveal moods from perturbed to whimsical. (Bob Schildgen Sierra )

An extremely intimate look at the life of bears... illustrated with Enn's beautiful close-up photographs... captivating. (Nancy Bent Booklist / RBB )

The text is accessible and informative, and the narrative implicit in the photographs is a tale full of wonder. (Pamela Banting ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and )

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Firefly Books (October 4, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1552978567
• ISBN-13: 978-1552978566
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 10.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,579,624 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars With beautiful color photos, January 9, 2004

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This review is from: Grizzly Seasons: Life with the Brown Bears of Kamchatka (Hardcover)

Charlie Russell and Maureen Enns' Grizzly Seasons portrays the summers spent by the authors in Russia's wilderness. Here is the densest population of brown bears in the world - and here is an exciting, captivating account of the authors' observations, paired with beautiful color photos by Enns.

4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Misleading Title, April 2, 2006

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This review is from: Grizzly Seasons (run-on for Firefly US and Hutchinson UK): Life with the Brown Bears of Kamchatka (Hardcover)

This is not a book about bears, this is a book about the authors, their problems and emotions--and about Mr. Russell's plane... What they have to say about the bears they set free would barely fill one chapter in all.
If you really want to know what it's like to raise orphan cubs in the wild, if you want to know about bear behavior, bear biology, and how to teach people to coexist peacefully with bears, read Benjamin Kilham's book "Among the Bears".