Dominion of Bears: Living with Wildlife in Alaska

by Sherry Simpson

Book Overview

Long ago we invited bears into our stories, our dreams, our nightmares, our lives. We have always sought them out where they live, for their hides, their meat, their beauty, their knowingness. Human country and bear country exist side by side.

As Sherry Simpson suggests, the relationship between bears and humans is ancient and ongoing and, in Alaska, profoundly and often uncomfortably close. A huge number of North America's bears live...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700619356
• ISBN13: 9780700619351
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.5"