Thor, a huge and peaceable grizzly, rules his mountain valley until a bullet from the hunter Langdon wounds him. As Langdon and his companion track the bear through the British Columbia wilderness, the story moves between hunters and hunted, while Thor befriends an orphaned cub. Curwood, a reformed hunter, wrote it to argue that the greatest thrill is in letting live.
The novel behind the 1988 film The Bear, for anyone who loves wilderness stories told from the animal’s side. Download the free EPUB.