The World Of The Polar Bear

Author : Norbert Rosing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1554076315

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Praise for the second edition: "Norbert's gift as a photographer is his great curiosity about the natural world. His magic is displayed in photographs that weave light, color and action into a tapestry that tells volumes about life in the Far North."-- National Geographic Magazine "Highly recommended."-- Library Journal (starred review) The polar bear is the largest terrestrial carnivore in the world, uniquely adapted to thrive in the harsh environment of the Far North. In The World of the Polar Bear, renowned nature photographer Norbert Rosing follows the polar bear through each season of the year. This timely third edition has been fully updated and features more than 20 terrific new photographs. With its thorough and engaging text and spectacular photography, The World of the Polar Bear includes: A season-by-season account of the life of the polar bear, including feeding, mating and rearing of cubs A new chapter featuring the polar bears of Svalbard, Norway An intimate look at the animals that share the polar bear's environment, including seals, arctic foxes, walruses and muskoxen A section on such northern sky phenomena as sun dogs and northern lights Many anecdotes and insights about the polar bear -- at once a loving parent, a fierce predator and a natural jester Polar bears are seriously threatened by global warming, and this book continues to explore this critical issue. The World of the Polar Bear is quite simply the best book ever published on the polar bear.

Author : Caroline Arnold
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781479582082

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A Polar Bear's World by Caroline Arnold Pdf

The arctic wind howls, but the two polar bear cubs are warm inside their den. They snuggle tight against their mother and drink her milk. Three months later, they tumble outside for their first walk in the snow. Bundle up and find out what happens in a polar bear's world.

Author : Richard Ellis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780307273024

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On Thin Ice by Richard Ellis Pdf

From "a graceful writer who’s written some of the best natural history books of the past decade” (The New York Times Book Review) comes an urgent, stirring celebration and a rallying cry on behalf of one of earth's greatest natural treasures. Polar bears—fierce and majestic—have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, they are a symbol for the harsh beauty and muscular grace of the Arctic. But as global warming threatens the ice caps’ integrity, the polar bear has also come to symbolize the environmental peril that has arisen due to harmful human practices. In the past twenty years alone, the world population of polar bears has shrunk by half. Today they number just 22,000.

Author : Andrew E. Derocher
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421403052

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Polar Bears by Andrew E. Derocher Pdf

Presents an introduction to the polar bear, discussing its evolution, physical characteristics, life cycle, predatory behavior, habitat, and the threats to its existence from global warming.

Author : Jenni Desmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1592702007

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The Polar Bear by Jenni Desmond Pdf

A gorgeously illustrated nonfiction book about the polar bear, this is a factually accurate as well as a poetic exploration of polar bear bodies, habits, and habitats. Working in a painterly, expressive way, Jenni Desmond creates landscapes and creatures that are marked by atmosphere and emotion, telling a story about bears that engages the reader's interest in amazing facts as well as their deep sense of wonder. A graduate of the renowned MA program in Children's Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art (ARU), Jenni Desmond works from her studio in London, UK. This, her second book for Enchanted Lion, will be followed by one about elephants.

Author : James Raffan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781501155383

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Ice Walker by James Raffan Pdf

From bestselling author James Raffan comes an enlightening and original story about a polar bear’s precarious existence in the changing Arctic, reminiscent of John Vaillant’s The Golden Spruce. Nanurjuk, “the bear-spirited one,” is hunting for seals on Hudson Bay, where ice never lasts more than one season. For her and her young, everything is in flux. From the top of the world, Hudson Bay looks like an enormous paw print on the torso of the continent, and through a vast network of lakes and rivers, this bay connects to oceans across the globe. Here, at the heart of everything, walks Nanurjuk, or Nanu, one polar bear among the six thousand that traverse the 1.23 million square kilometers of ice and snow covering the bay. For millennia, Nanu’s ancestors have roamed this great expanse, living, evolving, and surviving alongside human beings in one of the most challenging and unforgiving habitats on earth. But that world is changing. In the Arctic’s lands and waters, oil has been extracted—and spilled. As global temperatures have risen, the sea ice that Nanu and her young need to hunt seal and fish has melted, forcing them to wait on land where the delicate balance between them and their two-legged neighbors has now shifted. This is the icescape that author and geographer James Raffan invites us to inhabit in Ice Walker. In precise and provocative prose, he brings readers inside Nanu’s world as she treks uncertainly around the heart of Hudson Bay, searching for nourishment for the children that grow inside her. She stops at nothing to protect her cubs from the dangers she can see—other bears, wolves, whales, human beings—and those she cannot. By focusing his lens on this bear family, Raffan closes the gap between humans and bears, showing us how, like the water of the Hudson Bay, our existence—and our future—is tied to Nanu’s. He asks us to consider what might be done about this fragile world before it is gone for good. Masterful, vivid, and haunting, Ice Walker is an utterly unique piece of creative nonfiction and a deeply affecting call to action.

Author : Kale Williams
Publisher : Crown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781984826343

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The Loneliest Polar Bear by Kale Williams Pdf

“A moving story of abandonment, love, and survival against the odds.”—Dr. Jane Goodall The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating climate crisis is closely tied to our own Six days after giving birth, a polar bear named Aurora got up and walked away from her den at the Columbus Zoo, leaving her tiny squealing cub to fend for herself. Hours later, Aurora still hadn’t returned. The cub was furless and blind, and with her temperature dropping dangerously, the zookeepers entrusted with her care felt they had no choice: They would have to raise one of the most dangerous predators in the world by hand. Over the next few weeks, a group of veterinarians and zookeepers worked around the clock to save the cub, whom they called Nora. Humans rarely get as close to a polar bear as Nora’s keepers got to their fuzzy charge. But the two species have long been intertwined. Three decades before Nora’s birth, her father, Nanuq, was orphaned when an Inupiat hunter killed his mother, leaving Nanuq to be sent to a zoo. That hunter, Gene Agnaboogok, now faces some of the same threats as the wild bears near his Alaskan village of Wales, on the westernmost tip of the North American continent. As sea ice diminishes and temperatures creep up year after year, Agnaboogok and the polar bears—and everyone and everything else living in the far north—are being forced to adapt. Not all of them will succeed. Sweeping and tender, The Loneliest Polar Bear explores the fraught relationship humans have with the natural world, the exploitative and sinister causes of the environmental mess we find ourselves in, and how the fate of polar bears is not theirs alone.

Author : Norbert Rosing
Publisher : Helm
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : UCSC:32106018742178

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Author : Margery Fee
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781789141771

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Polar Bear by Margery Fee Pdf

Polar bears are truly majestic animals: the largest land-dwelling carnivore on earth, these white-furred, black-skinned giants can measure up to three meters in length and weigh up to fifteen hundred pounds. They are also iconic in other ways. They are a symbol of the climate change debate, with their survival now threatened by the loss of Arctic ice, and their images decorate fountains and the cornices of buildings across the world. They sell cold drinks. They feature in children’s books, on merry-go-rounds, and under the arms of weary toddlers heading for bed. Their pelts were once highly prized by hunters, and live captures became attractions in zoos and circuses. Stuffed bears still haunt museums and stately homes. In this natural and cultural history of the polar bear, Margery Fee explores the evolution, species, habitat, and behavior of the animal, as well as its portrayal in art, literature, film, and advertising. Illustrated throughout, Polar Bear will beguile anyone who loves these outsize, beautiful, seemingly cuddly, yet deadly carnivores.

Author : Katie Gillespie
Publisher : Weigl Publishers
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781791103514

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A Polar Bear's World by Katie Gillespie Pdf

Did you know that polar bears spend more time underwater than any other bear? Polar bears live in the Arctic where it is very cold. Learn these and other interesting facts in A Polar Bear’s World. A Polar Bear’s World is part of the new EYEDISCOVER collection of AV2 books.

Author : Peter Scott,Thor Larsen
Publisher : Booksales
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1555214169

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The World of the Polar Bear by Peter Scott,Thor Larsen Pdf

Discusses polar bears in mythology and as encountered by early arctic explorers, modern attempts to preserve the species, and the polar bear's characteristics and hunting, feeding, and mating habits.

Author : Steven Kazlowski
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781594854866

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Ice Bear by Steven Kazlowski Pdf

This title presents a collection of photographs by acclaimed 'polar bear photographer' Steven Kazlowski. Featuring mostly never-before-published images, this simple yet evocative book explores the polar bear's Arctic home and life cycle.

Author : Richard Ellis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780307454645

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On Thin Ice by Richard Ellis Pdf

Polar bears—fierce and majestic—have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, they are a symbol for the harsh beauty and muscular grace of the Arctic. But as global warming threatens the ice caps’ integrity, the polar bear has also come to symbolize the environmental peril that has arisen due to harmful human practices. In the past twenty years alone, the world population of polar bears has shrunk by half. Today they number just 22,000. Urgent and stirring, On Thin Ice is both a celebration and a rallying cry on behalf of one of earth’s greatest natural treasures.

Author : Thor Larsen
Publisher : London ; Toronto : Hamlyn
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Polar bear
ISBN : 0600371557

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The World of the Polar Bear by Thor Larsen Pdf

Well-illustrated description of the polar bear and its habitat.

Author : Yoko Tawada
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811225793

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Memoirs of a Polar Bear by Yoko Tawada Pdf

The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers—who happen to be polar bears The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as “Yoko Tawada’s magnificent strangeness”—Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary world. In chapter one, the grandmother matriarch in the Soviet Union accidentally writes a bestselling autobiography. In chapter two, Tosca, her daughter (born in Canada, where her mother had emigrated) moves to the DDR and takes a job in the circus. Her son—the last of their line—is Knut, born in chapter three in a Leipzig zoo but raised by a human keeper in relatively happy circumstances in the Berlin zoo, until his keeper, Matthias, is taken away... Happy or sad, each bear writes a story, enjoying both celebrity and “the intimacy of being alone with my pen.”