
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 WalshLength43h 23m
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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 23 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Grizzly, Our Greatest Wild Animal
2Preface
3Making a Bear Living
4Trailing without a Gun
5On the Defensive
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6Description, History, and Classification
7Will the Grizzly be Exterminated?
8Bear Brownie: The Life of a Bear
9BEAR BROWNIE
10CHAPTER V.
11CHAPTER VIII.
12Black Bruin: The Biography of a Bear
13Black Bruin
14The Bear Hurried in Hot Pursuit
15BLACK BRUIN DEALT THE PORCUPINE A CRUSHING BLOW
16CHAPTER XIV
17True Bear Stories
18PREFACE.
19IV.
20XI.
21XVI.
22SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION OF BEARS.
23Bears I Have Met—and Others
24BEARS I HAVE MET—AND OTHERS.
25CHAPTER III.
26CHAPTER VIII.
27CHAPTER XVI.
28The Life Story of a Black Bear
29THE LIFE STORY OF A BLACK BEAR
30THE BLACK BEAR
31CHAPTER II CUBHOOD DAYS
32CHAPTER III THE COMING OF MAN
33CHAPTER IV THE FOREST FIRE
34CHAPTER V I LOSE A SISTER
35CHAPTER VI LIFE IN CAMP
36CHAPTER VII THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
37CHAPTER VIII ALONE IN THE WORLD
38CHAPTER IX I FIND A COMPANION
39CHAPTER X A VISIT TO THE OLD HOME
40CHAPTER XI THE TROUBLES OF A FATHER
41CHAPTER XII WIPING OUT OLD SCORES
42CHAPTER XIII THE TRAP
43CHAPTER XIV IN THE HANDS OF MAN
44Footnote
45Chinook, the Cinnamon Cub
46CHAPTER I A BOY AND A BEAR
47CHAPTER II THE CUBS LEARN TO SWIM
48CHAPTER III THE CALIFORNIA LION
49CHAPTER IV THE HOME IN THE SQUIRREL’S NEST
50CHAPTER V MR. AND MRS. TREE MOUSE