Arctic Icons: How the Town of Churchill Learned to Love Its Polar Bears

by Ed Struzik and Edward Struzik

Book Overview

For nearly a quarter century, the polar bears of Churchill were routinely run down and shot by the military, by residents and by conservation officers who were brought in during the late 1960s to protect people. According to one scientist who was there at the time, polar bears were treated more like "great white rats" than the world's largest predator. But then something remarkable happened in 1970s. Churchill residents, most of whom are aboriginal,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554553229
• ISBN13: 9781554553228
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.8" x 10.3"