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| | Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance |  | Author: Stephen Herrero
Publisher: Winchester Pr
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 1345464
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 287
ISBN: 0832903779
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.68
EAN: 9780832903779
ASIN: 0832903779
Publication Date: March 1985
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| Customer Reviews:
 Very informative December 17, 2005
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Not badly written. The author knows his subject very well. The book is about bear attacks, of course; and so I do not see how anybody can protest that the book is too gory. None of the gore is gratuitous. The author is not out to scare anybody excessively, is not anti-conservationist, and has no irrelevant political agenda.
What to expect when you're expecting to be mauled September 4, 2005
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is the single greatest academic look at bear attacks. Herrero is so exhaustive in his efforts to describe every type of bear attack that after a while you wonder how you can possibly survive a night outside. It seems that in every situation, no matter what you do to avoid a mauling there is a story where it leads to a mauling. But his complete look at all types of maulings comes to two conclusions. First there are basic strategies that work in almost all situations and second, bears are unpredictable so there is no magic answer for all situations.
The book does have a lot of graphic bear attack stories, but this is not a typical "bear attack" book. In the end this book is an academic book full of scientific analysis and statistics. Between attack stories, it can be dry, scientific reading. But if you want to know everything you can about you won't do better than this book
 Too bloody for me December 23, 2004
13 out of 21 found this review helpful
Is it worth wading through all the bloody bear attack tales in this book to get Herrero's safety tips and his facts and figures on bear attacks? Probably. But was it necessary for Herrero to include story after story with clinical details of bears ripping off people's faces? No. Definately not. A single story with details about the extent of the injuries people suffer during a bear attack would have been sufficient to illustrate the power of bears. This book includes at least 20-30 stories. This gratuitous violence wasn't necessary. I feel it demonizes bears. The difference between Herrero's book and a half-dozen trashy books filled with the same type of bloody bear attack tales (Alaska Bear Tales, Mark of the Grizzly, Bear Attacks: The Deadly Truth) is that once you get past all the blood and gore, Herrero gives an accurate analysis of the incident. The others don't. Herrero helps you understand what went wrong, and explains your best course of action should you ever find yourself in a dangerous situation with a bear. The others don't. Herrero is walking a real fine line between exploiting bears, and educating people about bears. He pulls it off, but you can get the same safety advice without the blood and violence from other books and other sources.
A Bear Book Hall of Famer August 29, 2004
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is it!! The authoritative piece of literature on avoiding bear attacks. An absolute must for anyone who travels or works in bear country, especially grizzly bear country. I have over 350 books and publications on bears and refer to this book when friends want advice on their next hike in bear country. I learned how really useless "bear bells" are in bear country and that in itself might have saved me from many "ugly" encounters of suprising a grizzly bear on the trail. Sometimes it is only one small bit of advice that "saves" you from so many problems in life and this book is full of great advice.
Bear Attacks: Life's manual for living with bears August 6, 2004
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Stephen Herrero has done an excellent job of illustrating and teaching the average "Joe" about bear psychology. He not only touches grizzly bear pyschology, characteristics, and behavior but includes, in great detail, how one can understand black bears as well. The book tends to be detailed in its descriptions of the attacks, but it is necessary to better understand how to protect oneself better in the rare case of an attack. His book is a great read that I recommend to anyone to better understand how to live with and understand bears that inhabit the contiguous United States and Canada. It will grab any individual who just wants to learn more about bears or individuals involved with bear management in all locations.
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