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Bear attacks of the century: true stories of courage and survival by Larry Mueller; Marguerite Reiss is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Do bear attacks touch people in the far-back recesses of their psyches? Reach latent ancestral memories of cave days when humans were potential prey? Indeed, there are those who say their nightmares involved bears before they ever saw one, either in the flesh or in the movies. Unfortunately, these nightmares all too often come true. People perform almost superhuman feats in their fight to survive bear attacks. Jim Marriott, for instance, was attacked and mauled by a grizzly while carving out a moose head. When playing dead didn't work, he slammed his skinning knife into the attacker's neck. The surprised bear backed off only to charge again, cut his tongue trying to bite at the knife, and got the knife sunk into the same place. By the third charge, Marriott was on his feet despite chewed buttocks and damaged legs. This time the bear left with the knife still sticking in his neck. "In bear attacks, the human survival instinct is extraordinary," says a doctor who sees the terrible punishment victims of bear attacks live through. "And equally amazing are the heroics and seemingly superhuman efforts of those around the victims." BEAR ATTACKS OF THE CENTURY gathers together these storie
Who reads Bear attacks of the century: true stories of courage and survival?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Larry Mueller; Marguerite Reiss
- Publisher
- Lyon's Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781592288106
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Nature, Science, Fiction
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (30 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
