Robert Franklin Leslie
Author of The Bears and I: Raising Three Cubs in the North Woods
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Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Toy Soldiers • A Time to Die • The Bears and I • Landscape of Lies 7 copies
The Bears and I [1974 film] — Original book — 6 copies
Livros Condensados: Tempo de Matar | As Pontes de Madison County | Ícone: À Sombra do Arco-Íris (1997) — Author — 5 copies
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 190: Der Schwarze Tod / Auf der Fährte der Silberlöwen / Lügenlandschaft / Frei wie… (1993) 5 copies
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 169 - In den Wäldern von Borodino. Chico. Jeder Tag zählt. Die Bären und ich (1990) 4 copies
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher, Bestseller-Sonderband - Zerreissprobe / Die Bären und ich / Die Churchill-Diamenten (1992) 3 copies
Das vierte Protokoll. - Lowell, Joan: Ich spucke gegen den Wind. - Clark, Mary H: Wachzeit. - Leslie, Robert F: Ein… (1986) 3 copies
Het Beste Boek 167: Het chunnel syndroom / In de schaduw van een regenboog / Dood door schuld? / Het Venetiaanse masker (1994) 2 copies
Het Beste Boek 122: Lever nooit de liefde in / Het vierde protocol / Ringo, de rovende wasbeer / Vleugels uit het… (1986) 2 copies
Het Beste Boek 147: Stien Bekkers en haar kinderen / De vloek van de elementen / Kind van de rekening / De beren en ik (1991) 2 copies
Livros Condensados: O Negociador | Horowitz e Mrs. Washington | A Epidemia | Ringo, o Larápio (1989) 2 copies
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: Voices on the Wind • The Broken Saddle • In a Place Dark and Secret • Ringo, the… (1986) 1 copy
Reader's Digest Condensed Books: The Evening News • The Bears and I • Winner • Patterson's Volunteers — Author — 1 copy
Reader's Digest Select Editions: Icon • Notorious • Harvest • In the Shadow of a Rainbow — Author — 1 copy
Livros Condensados: O Punho de deus | Sentença de Morte | A Máscara Veneziana | Os Ursos e Eu (1995) — Author — 1 copy
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It is the true story of a young man in the early 1930's who needed money to complete college, and decided to try his luck panning for gold in the North Woods of British Columbia. He arranged to stay in a primitive cabin on Babine Lake in a remote area, sparsely populated by Indians, and overflowing with wildlife. His rent: half of the gold dust he could sluice and pan from the creek that ran past the cabin into the lake.
One day an old female, who had taken in three orphaned black bear cubs, decided she was too old to raise another family, and she left the bears at the cabin, in care of the author, Bob Leslie. At first the cubs were shy, and refused to leave the tree they hid in. But, eventually they got hungry, and began to overcome their fear of man.
Over the next three years Leslie raised them from little cubs to full-grown adults, teaching them the skills they needed to survive in the woods. He was careful not to domesticate them, but he couldn't prevent them from bonding with one another, and with him.
This incredible story can be enjoyed on many levels. It is a thrilling outdoors adventure. It is a reminiscence of a simpler time, in a remote wilderness, where survival was always a daily struggle. It is the story of the interpersonal relationships that developed among Rusty, Dusty, Scratch, and the author -- the love they all felt for one another, and the ways in which they communicated.
This well written book is one you cannot put down, and once you complete it, it will stay with you. For the life of me I cannot understand why it was allowed to go out of print. It is not easy to find used, and the copies being sold on Amazon are expensive. They are worth the prices being charged, but you will not appreciate that until you have read the book too. Find it, in the library, at a yard sale, online -- anywhere! But, find it if you can, and read it, and be amazed.… (more)