| Personal Name |
Moyles, Trina, author.
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| Title Statement |
Black bear : a story of siblinghood and survival / Trina Moyles.
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| Edition Statement |
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Pegasus Books, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
313 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent.
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia.
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| Carrier Type |
volume rdacarrier.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references.
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| Summary, Etc. |
A memoir that intertwines personal history, family relationships, and environmental reflection through the author's lifelong connection to black bears in northern Alberta. Drawing on childhood experiences, work as a fire tower lookout, and observations of bears in a wildlife corridor affected by oil development, the book explores grief, sibling bonds, and the impact of resource extraction on both human and nonhuman lives, advocating for understanding and coexistence with the natural world.
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| Summary, Etc. |
For readers of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands and H Is for Hawk, a dazzling memoir about one woman's coexistence with bears in the boreal forest and a singular meditation on sibling loss. When Trina Moyles was five years old, her father, a wildlife biologist known in Peace River as "the bear guy," brought home an orphaned black bear cub for a night before sending it to the Edmonton Valley Zoo. This brief but unforgettable encounter spurred Trina's lifelong fascination with Ursus americanus--the most populous bear on the northern landscape, often considered a hindrance to human society. As a child roaming the shores of the Peace in the footsteps of her beloved older brother, Brendan, Trina experienced the elemental world her father guarded. She understood bears to be invisible entities: always present but mostly hidden, and worthy of respect. Growing up during the oil boom of the 1990s, the threats in the siblings' hard-drinking resource town were more human, dividing them from a natural reverence for the land, and eventually, from each other. After years of living abroad, Trina returned to northern Alberta to work as a fire tower lookout, while Brendan was working in the oil sands, vulnerable to a boom-and-bust economy and substance addiction. In 2019, she was assigned to a tower in a wildlife corridor. Bears were visible and plentiful there, wandering metres away on the other side of an electrified fence surrounding Trina's site. Over four summers, Trina begins to move beyond fear and observe the extraordinary essence of the maligned black bear--a keystone species who is subject to the environmental consequences of the oil economy as humans. At the same time, she searches for common ground with Brendan on the land that bonded them. Impassioned and eloquent, Black Bear is a story of grief and a vision of peaceful coexistence in a divided world. It captures the fragility of our relationships with human and nonhuman species alike, and the imperative to protect wild ecosystems, as well as the people we hold closest.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Moyles, Trina
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Moyles, Trina.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Black bear Alberta, Northern.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Journalists Canada Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Human-animal relationships Alberta, Northern.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Petroleum industry and trade Environmental aspects Alberta, Northern.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fire lookouts Alberta, Northern Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Siblings of suicide victims Alberta, Northern Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Siblings Death Psychological aspects.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. lcgft.
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