Bear: Spirit of the Wild

Beautiful book on bears and love the spirit bear is on the cover. This is an awesome well written book on bears with amazing photography.

Though it’s not the fault of the author/photographer Paul Nicklen (love his work!), I had to take away one star strictly for the condition this product arrived in. I purchased this with the intent to give it away as a gift but it will be less than perfect due to the ripped book cover. Nevertheless, the content is full of amazing footage and info any bear lover would appreciate.

I love this book!!!

WOW

Amazing photographs, interesting, thought-provoking text about these wonderful creatures. A labor of love you can feel!

Lots of information and good story telling.

Typical gorgeous photography from National Geographic. Nicklen got amazingly close to his subjects and respected them. He mentions their habitat losses and other hardships but captures their playful side. The spirit bears were my favorite.

My wife loves her bear book. She has always loved bears and we have a lot of "stuff" of bears and about bears but this book puts the bear in the environment it belongs with its beautiful pictures and well written narrative.

As I have become accustomed to with National Geographic publications, the quality and standard is superlative and difficult to surpass in, both, visual design and written content. This is a book that painstakingly highlights the plight of bears in different regions of the world and loss of their associated and endangered habitat. While it, rightly, highlights these concerns, it remains 'upbeat' in its approach with a positive outlook toward various conservation projects and to ensure measures are implemented to protect these increasingly endangered species.This tome, undoubtedly, does justice to bears [creatures I, personally, have a particular affection for] inasmuch by, rightly, dispensing with myths and by revealing rarely seen behaviours, thereby, increasing empathy for these misunderstood but nevertheless significant and important predators. The poignant passion and concern is conveyed with eloquently written insights and the numerous dangers confronting these majestic creatures, in whichever region they inhabit.Although it most certainly does not detract from the overall content, the only [nit-picking] observation I have made is that some of the print seems to have published in a 'silvery grey' tone on white pages which may make it difficult for some readers and in a certain light [or perhaps lack of it]. Otherwise I can do nothing but highly recommend this wonderful, magnificent and awe-inspiring account of bears, in their natural habitats, the photographs are stunning.

Wow. What a wonderful book. I purchased this for my girlfriend (who loves bears), and was a little skeptical.. (I hadn't heard of Paul Nickesn, not many reviews on amazon etc etc), but boy am I glad I found this.Its packed with what must be 100+ gorgeous photos of all kinds of bears - and the shots are terrific. When you live in England, you can't see bears every day, but this book is the next best thing.If you like bears, buy it. Simple.

This book was purchased for a close friend with memory issues, the balance between text and photographs is exceptional.

Absolutely amazing imagery from an outstanding photographer.You can almost feel what Paul went through by each and every photography you see.Great context of history and geography concerning bears.Good and easy writing to read and compulsory. A must have when you talk about Bears.The spirit is definitely there.A total embracing work.

This book deserves 10 stars. The photographs in it are simply stupendous, unbelievable, beautiful - there really aren't enough superlatives to do this marvellous book justice. Buy it; if you love bears you'll love this book!