Some Bears Kill

Some Bears Kill
Pub. 1997 / 313pp
Paperback

Some Bears Kill chronicles 38 man-bear encounters involving black, brown/grizzly and polar bears. From the wild bruin to the zoo bear people get into trouble. The theme of the book is that bears aren't bad, people need education.

Incredible stories of a man who was ambushed on a village street by a polar bear and dragged into the black of night on Alaska's northwest coast, a multitude of men armed only with arrow or knife that took on the power of paws and claws, joggers taken by surprise by a brown-grizzly near Anchorage, some bizarre tales, a search for the world record brownie and 8 pages of photos including a charging grizzly. Eight appendices make for informative reading, discuss bear body language and how to avoid mauling, and raise some questions about pepper spray, unnecessary deaths, medical considerations and agency weapons training.

"'When a bear gets a hold of a man, the bear usually wins,'" warns Larry Kaniut, America's best-selling chronicler of what happens when man meets bear in Alaska's wilderness...he speaks with the voice of experience: 'Never, never trust a bear.'"

--Some Bears Kill inside jacket