Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance

By Stephen Herrero

What causes bear attacks? When should you play dead and when should you fight an attacking bear? What do we know about black and grizzly bears and how can this knowledge be used to avoid bear attacks? And, more generally, what is the bear’s future?

Bear Attacks is a thorough and unflinching landmark study of the attacks made on men and women by the great grizzly and the occasionally deadly black bear. This is a book for everyone who hikes, camps, or visits bear country – and for anyone who wants to know more about these sometimes fearsome but always fascinating wild creatures.


From the Hardcover edition.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Jan 11, 2012
• ISBN: 9781551994802

Reviews for Bear Attacks

[viccavalli · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book is not only interesting, it could save your life. A must read for anyone who wants to venture into the pockets of true wilderness which still remain.

[garrison0550 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I built a cabin in the middle of nowhere, Alaska and had some serious encounters with bears. I bought this book at the time, hoping it would give me some information that might help me from being mauled to death. The book contains mostly common sense suggestions, and to be honest I found a healthy dose of paranoia, a 12 guage loaded with copper slugs and an SKS Chinese assault rifle to be more reassuring.