Some Bears Kill: True Life Tales of Terror [Hardcover]

Larry Kainut (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 14, 1997

Available on eBook: amazon.com/Some-Bears-Kill-Terror-ebook/dp/B004LGTNFM/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2

Never before have so many exciting, hair-raising tales of bear encounters been collected into one book. Read about a man who swam into a lake to try to escape a furious bear only to find to his horror that bears can swim too! Or of the old gold prospector who got mauled and sewed up his own stomach-and lived to tell about it! When a bear attacks, it does so with devastating ferocity. Although the average attack lasts but thirty seconds, grievous injury can result from powerful paws and jaws. Strangely enough, most attacks are nonfatal. This book is filled with true-life episodes of close-calls, maulings, and deaths by all three North American bears: black, grizzly, and polar. These stories are not fiction. All are, eerily enough, based on complete fact. Even the FOX TV show When Animals Attack uses Kaniut's material for their shows. The author of two previous best-selling books on dangerous bears brings you a cliffhanger-you won't want to miss his latest and best yet!

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Never before have so many exciting, hair-raising tales of bear encounters been collected into one book. Read about a man who swam into a lake to try to escape a furious bear only to find to his horror that bears can swim too! Or of the old gold prospector who got mauled and sewed up his own stomach-and lived to tell about it! When a bear attacks, it does so with devastating ferocity. Although the average attack lasts but thirty seconds, grievous injury can result from powerful paws and jaws. Strangely enough, most attacks are non-fatal. This book is filled with true-life episodes of close-calls, maulings, and deaths by all three North American bears: black, grizzly, and polar. These stories are not fiction. All are, eerily enough, based on complete fact. Even the FOX TV show When Animals Attack uses Kaniut's material for their shows. The author of two previous best-selling books on dangerous bears brings you a cliffhanger-you won't want to miss his latest and best yet!

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: Safari Press; 2 edition (October 14, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571570608
• ISBN-13: 978-1571570604
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,191,525 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Log cabin. Snowed in. Pregnant young woman. Deer Park, Washington. Baby boy.

A month after the bombing of Pearl Harbor I joined my sister Laura Lee and our parents Vivian and Larry, thanks to my great-grandmother Clara Kralman's midwifery. A little over a year later Lana Lynne completed our family. Before long my father left us.

Vivian worked in the war effort in Everett, building Liberty ships and B-29 bulkheads for bombers at the Boeing plant. When she became ill, Vivian and the children moved to her parent's dairy farm.

Within a few years she met and married Chuck Jenkins. His love of hunting and fishing whetted my appetite for camping, hiking, hunting and fishing. Charlie spent hours playing catch and hitting fly balls to me, opening the sports arena for me.

I attended grade schools in Seattle, Kelso, Everett, Spokane and Walla Walla where I played football, basketball and baseball. Halfway through the eighth grade we moved from Walla Walla to Clarkston where I became more independent, hunting and fishing with friends.

I was a member of the football, trampoline and badminton teams and participated in the school newspaper and yearbook as well as drama and student government before graduating from Charles Francis Adams High School in 1960.

My college years were spent at Warner Pacific College in Portland, Oregon (played basketball) before transferring in 1963 to Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, where I received degrees in English-literature and education. At Warner I met Pamela Diane Timmons. Struck by her auburn-haired, hazel-eyed beauty, I later asked her to marry me.

We wed in Newberg, Oregon, August 28, 1964 prior to my senior year. In 1966 I accepted an offer to teach English and reading at Anchorage's newest school, A.J. Dimond High School. During my first years there I coached the cross-country running team and assisted Don Frantz with the wrestling program. I enjoyed teaching at Dimond for 26 years; my coaching also included football and track.

In the winter of 1967 Pam informed me that we were going to be parents and on September 25, 1968, Ginger Diane was born. Within a year and a half Jill Rose joined our family (May 7, 1970). On our 9th anniversary in 1973 our third child, Benjamin Chane, was born. By now our family had moved from Spenard to south Anchorage where we built our home "out in the country".
I began ground school in hopes of earning my private pilot's license. I passed the written exam in the spring of 1993 and began flying with Heidi Ruess and her son Rick of Arctic Flyers May 18, 1994, passing my check ride with her April 9, 1995. In March 2003 I began rebuilding a wrecked Super Cub thus fulfilling my dream to own a Piper Cub.

During my effort to entice publishers to edit a book of Alaskan adventures about prospectors, pioneers and pilots so that I'd have a text book for my literature of the North classes, I was asked to write a book of Alaskan bear stories. I began compiling stories in January 1975, continued teaching, husbanding and fathering, working with young people at church and starting a 2400-square-foot addition to the home we built in 1970. That book, Alaska Bear Tales, was completed in 1980 and sent to the publisher, reaching the public in May 1983. It is in its 19th printing.

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Must reading for outdoor travelers in Alaska., May 1, 1998

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[e-mail] (Anchorage, Alaska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Some Bears Kill: True Life Tales of Terror (Hardcover)

Larry does an excellent job of relating these stories. Any person planning travel to Alaska's back country needs to have this information before setting out.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book from a great story teller, September 13, 2001

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Randy Chapman (Paulden, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Some Bears Kill: True Life Tales of Terror (Hardcover)

This is a great book by one of the best authors on the subject. Mr Kaniut is an authority on the subject of bear attacks. He has devoted many hours, days and trips across Alaska to bring first hand accounts, when possible, not only by the victims but by tracking down witnesses to the attacks. I have read several of his books and never been disappointed. This is a must read for the outdoor and wildlife enthusiast. A book that will stay in your bookcase for a re-read.

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great book, July 26, 2011

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This review is from: Some Bears Kill: True Life Tales of Terror (Kindle Edition)

I have read most of the books Mr.Kanuit has wrote, my fiance urged me to read one of his other bear books and I was hooked from there. Years ago through this very site he and Mr Kanuit got to e-mailing each other back and forth but have since lost contact. We both have read all his books and hope he will soon have a new one for us to read.