From Roland's Bookstore
Learning To Talk Bear
5-1/2 X 8-1/2
12-point cover 320 pages $21.95
God's music is wind soughing
through threetops, dove wings whispering at
waterholes, the mournful cry of a lost-in-the-fog honker.
It's a harmony that became addictive, and carries even into my dotage. Elk music took me to
the dance. Bears -- particularly grizzly bears -- keep me dancing.
Grizzlies, you see, are the Marine Band of the animal world. They swagger with the
calm indifference of an animal who knows he has nothing left to prove. So why does this
John Philip Sousa of wildlife resonance -- an
animal who may really believe us superior
creatures, but who are in no way reconciled that we
are masters -- receive such a bum rap from the planet's most fearsome other creatures ... us?
Good question; not all grizzly bears are Jack the Rippers in fur coats. Perhaps that's
the reason for this book.
An entire book about a single charismatic grizzly bear
who may have thought more of her cubs than of the
annoying cloying humans who insisted on sharing her land
I bought this book Learning To Talk
Bear because I desire a knowledge of bears, their life, their existence. Reading
this book has opened my eyes to more than I ever thought
there was to learn. I even bought a map so that I could see
the areas he describes. If all books about grizzlies and bears
are this enjoyable, I have a lot of reading to do.
Learning To Talk Bear is Roland's best selling book -- now in it's 5th printing.
The book was offered to 17 different publishers and rejected by all.
"Who cares about grizzly bears?" they said. Well, for starters, how about the 2 million people visiting Glacier Park and 3 million
visiting Yellowstone each year? So Roland and Jane
published the book themselves. They're laughing all the way to the bank.
Tales of the West that Was
and the West that Is
- an amazon.com five star (*****) review from
Elizabethtown, PA
(or send check or money order for $21.95 to Roland Cheek, P.O. Box 1118, Columbia Falls, MT 59912)
