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Chasing the Ghost Bear : On the Trail of America's Lost Super Beast.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781496231949
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Chasing the Ghost BearDDC classification:
  • 569.78
LOC classification:
  • QE881 .S737 2022
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Part 1 -- 1. Into the Dark -- 2. Skull -- 3. A Family of Bears -- 4. Bone Trove -- 5. Inside -- 6. Into the Pleistocene -- 7. Bears in Proximity -- 8. Bears Are Everywhere -- Part 2 -- 9. La Brea -- 10. Hiding in the Muck -- 11. Teeth and Bones -- 12. A Surge of Discovery -- Part 3 -- 13. What Happened in Fulton County -- 14. Real Monsters -- 15. A Hoosier's Search -- 16. Dispossessed -- Part 4 -- 17. Fitful Arrivals -- 18. Imagining Arctodus -- 19. The Great and Far North -- 20. Lubbock -- 21. Ancient Hunters -- Part 5 -- 22. Endings -- 23. What Happened? -- 24. De-extinction -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.
Summary: Part natural history, part travelogue, and part meditation on extinction and loss, Chasing the Ghost Bear is a journey into the giant short-faced bear's enigmatic story--life, disappearance, and rediscovery--and those trying to piece it together today.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Part 1 -- 1. Into the Dark -- 2. Skull -- 3. A Family of Bears -- 4. Bone Trove -- 5. Inside -- 6. Into the Pleistocene -- 7. Bears in Proximity -- 8. Bears Are Everywhere -- Part 2 -- 9. La Brea -- 10. Hiding in the Muck -- 11. Teeth and Bones -- 12. A Surge of Discovery -- Part 3 -- 13. What Happened in Fulton County -- 14. Real Monsters -- 15. A Hoosier's Search -- 16. Dispossessed -- Part 4 -- 17. Fitful Arrivals -- 18. Imagining Arctodus -- 19. The Great and Far North -- 20. Lubbock -- 21. Ancient Hunters -- Part 5 -- 22. Endings -- 23. What Happened? -- 24. De-extinction -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes.

Part natural history, part travelogue, and part meditation on extinction and loss, Chasing the Ghost Bear is a journey into the giant short-faced bear's enigmatic story--life, disappearance, and rediscovery--and those trying to piece it together today.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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