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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
American Bear: The Epic, Untold Story of Our Wildest Animal

American Bear: The Epic, Untold Story of Our Wildest Animal

Newcomb, Clay

Hardcover

HuntingGeneral United States HistoryOther Animals

Publisher Price: $32.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date February 9, 2027

ISBN10: 0593733169
ISBN13: 9780593733165
Publisher: Random House
Published: Feb 9 2027
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.25
Language: English
An unforgettable deep dive into the history, mythos, and cultural significance of America's wildest survivor, the black bear--from the host of the wildly popular MeatEater podcast Bear Grease

For seven generations, the Newcomb family has hunted, observed, and lived alongside the American black bear in the wilds of Arkansas. In this eye-opening, wondrous exploration, Clay Newcomb, the renowned host of MeatEater's Bear Grease podcast, and an avid hunter, conservationist, and storyteller, travels across North America in search of them, bringing the world of these remarkable creatures to life, and cementing their significance in the heart of the American experience.

Part natural history, part campfire-storytelling, and part untold ancient and American history, American Bear explores why bears have been revered, feared, hunted, and misunderstood for millennia--and why their comeback is one of the greatest conservation successes of the century. Newcomb tracks the black bear's astonishing arc as its basal ancestors journeyed from Paleolithic Asia to the Bering Land Bridge, where the arctic climate shapes them into master generalists, gorging on Whiteoak acorns and vanishing into winter dens for months without food or water. We follow the bears to various Indigenous communities who venerate them as spiritually significant, powerful beings; to the frontier era, when market hunters nearly erased a bear species that had once thrived; to modern-day suburbia, where regular encounters demonstrate bears' explosive adaptability as we learn to live as close neighbors.

Both a captivating personal narrative, and a work of environmental and historical significance, American Bear tells us as much about ourselves as it does about the creature who perhaps best of all embodies both our endurance and our ethos.

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