The Bear Chronicles: A Compelling Collection
North American Wilderness Tales of Wildlife, Survival, and Human Encounters with the WildBy Allen Kelly, Joaquin Miller, Enos A. Mills, Harry Perry Robinson, Howard Roger Garis, Clarence Hawkes, Curtis Dwight Wilbur, Thornton W. Burgess, Allen Chaffee, Arthur Scott Bailey, George Ethelbert Walsh
Length43h 22m
About this audiobook
The Bear Chronicles: A Compelling Collection gathers tales, sketches, and animal-centered adventures that trace the bear's shifting place in the literary imagination: formidable wilderness presence, subject of natural observation, and expressive figure in children's fiction. Across its varied prose styles—frontier narrative, natural-history reflection, moral fable, and brisk popular adventure—the volume moves between awe, humor, danger, and sympathy. Episodes of pursuit and survival stand beside attentive depictions of animal habit, making the collection a revealing document of early twentieth-century writing about the American wild. Its contributors represent a broad field of popular nature and juvenile literature, including regional storytellers, conservation-minded observers, adventure writers, and makers of animal tales. Together, these voices participate in a period when wildlife writing increasingly joined entertainment with instruction, and when the vanishing or protected wilderness became a powerful cultural concern. Their differing approaches—some emphasizing firsthand-looking detail, others imaginative characterization—enrich the bear as both biological creature and enduring cultural emblem. Recommended for readers of animal literature, environmental history, and classic children's writing, this volume offers an unusually broad encounter with a single subject. It invites comparison among narrative methods and ethical attitudes, while providing an accessible education in the traditions that shaped popular understandings of wildlife.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, General Fiction
Length43 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Grizzly, Our Greatest Wild Animal
2The Grizzly, Our Greatest Wild Animal
3Preface
4Making a Bear Living
5Trailing without a Gun
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6On the Defensive
7Description, History, and Classification
8Will the Grizzly be Exterminated?
9Bear Brownie: The Life of a Bear
10Bear Brownie: The Life of a Bear
11BEAR BROWNIE
12CHAPTER V.
13CHAPTER VIII.
14Black Bruin: The Biography of a Bear
15Black Bruin: The Biography of a Bear
16Black Bruin
17The Bear Hurried in Hot Pursuit
18BLACK BRUIN DEALT THE PORCUPINE A CRUSHING BLOW
19CHAPTER XIV
20True Bear Stories
21PREFACE.
22IV.
23XI.
24XVI.
25SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION OF BEARS.
26Bears I Have Met—and Others
27Bears I Have Met—and Others
28BEARS I HAVE MET—AND OTHERS.
29CHAPTER III.
30CHAPTER VIII.
31CHAPTER XVI.
32The Life Story of a Black Bear
33THE LIFE STORY OF A BLACK BEAR
34THE BLACK BEAR
35CHAPTER II CUBHOOD DAYS
36CHAPTER III THE COMING OF MAN
37CHAPTER IV THE FOREST FIRE
38CHAPTER V I LOSE A SISTER
39CHAPTER VI LIFE IN CAMP
40CHAPTER VII THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
41CHAPTER VIII ALONE IN THE WORLD
42CHAPTER IX I FIND A COMPANION
43CHAPTER X A VISIT TO THE OLD HOME
44CHAPTER XI THE TROUBLES OF A FATHER
45CHAPTER XII WIPING OUT OLD SCORES
46CHAPTER XIII THE TRAP
47CHAPTER XIV IN THE HANDS OF MAN
48Footnote
49Chinook, the Cinnamon Cub
50CHAPTER I A BOY AND A BEAR
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