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A carregar... Hunted: A True Story of Survivalpor David Fletcher
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Fletcher, an avid adventurer recounts his ordeal of terror in the Alaskan wilderness. His accidental killing of a grizzly cub renders him the prey of the mama Grizzly. This book is so bad I shouldn't even bother with it, but I will, since it bothered me so, just for a sec. Briefly, Hunted: A True Story of Survival, is about a gargantuan Grizzly Bear with huge, frightful incisors (see bookcover), out for some righteous revenge, engaged in its arguably God- (or evolutionally-) endowed instinct of hunting hateful, bear cub butchering humans that give even yellow-bellied cowards a bad name. I was rooting for the rightfully enraged Grizzly Mama the whole way. Go Grizz Mama go! Eat that nasty human! Too bad the understandably vindictive Grizzly Mama Bear didn't write this story - a story about a buffoonish, arrogant, ex-Royal Marine climbing a mountain in Alaska, all the while being hunted by a naturally upset Mama Bear whose innocent bear cub he summarily executed like it were some imaginary Taliban spy - prob'ly would've been a better written story had the grizzly bear written it. Growl. That "growl" emanated from my gut and not the grizzly bear's, btw. See, ever since Grizzly Adams, I've a soft spot for grizzlies. Cute, cuddly animals when trained and treated just right by people with know-how. And besides, unnecessary cruelty to animals just sort of plain sucks too doesn't it? Sometimes supposed human beings, no matter how well militarily trained they might be, are more animals than animals, aren't they? Maybe it's my bias, but I think that Fletcher shouldn't have killed the bear cub and shouldn't have proceeded to climb the mountain with the mother hunting him. Also, his statement of "hair turned white overnight" doesn't ring true. Stress can cause pigmented hair to fall out, leaving grey and white hair. However, pigmented hairs are dead cells and do not "turn white." sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
'I knew that something was watching me. It was the most primitive hatred imaginable, reaching out towards me, seeking to burn me from the face of the earth.' When British climber David Fletcher set off to explore the remote Hayes group of mountains in Alaska he was warned about soloing so far from rescue. Never could he have imagined that he was about to enter into a battle as fierce as Captain Ahab's legendary contest with the great whale. But this is real life, not fiction, and Fletcher's adversary is the most feared creature in the Alaskan wilderness, a grizzly bear - a 10-foot high, 1200 lb, furious she-bear whose cub he has accidentally killed in a moment of panic. Appalled at his own mistake and full of sorrow for the bear, Fletcher tries desperately to escape, but during the nightmare pursuit that follows he eventually comes to accept that unless he can kill her, she will certainly destroy him. Hunted is the true story of how the vengeful mother bear, each of her paws as wide as a man's chest and with claws five inches long, stalks her human quarry over the rugged Alaskan terrain, cutting him off from his food supply, nearly cornering him time and time again. Once her claws rake his climbing boots as he hangs from a rope inches above her reach, once she traps him in a crevasse which threatens to collapse in on him under her shifting weight as she reaches to hook him out. The two are partners in a deadly game, a strange intimacy. Seldom has the remorseless contest between man and beast been so vividly portrayed. A gripping true story in which beast hunts man Fascinating account of one of the last great wildernesses where beauty and danger go hand in hand Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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