Uomini e orsi. Una breve storia
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Simbolo di spazi selvaggi e inviolati, ma anche dei più teneri giochi infantili, l’orso ha stregato l’uomo sin dalla preistoria. Bernd Brunner ci porta attraverso il tempo e lo spazio per farci scoprire i risvolti inattesi di un rapporto burrascoso, fatto di cacce, inseguimenti, fughe, ma anche di rarissimi e preziosi momenti di condivisione. Uomini e orsi, con le sue ricche illustrazioni, introduce il lettore alla nostalgia per una vita libera e brada, che proprio come gli orsi non si lascia addomesticare o costringere nei limiti angusti della cosiddetta civiltà. Molti sono stati gli uomini preda di una vera e propria «orsessione», come recita uno dei capitoli del libro, di un’attrazione, talvolta fatale, che li ha spinti a sfidare i propri limiti. Brunner ci racconta le loro e altre storie, in un caleidoscopio di fiabe, miti e credenze che cattura dalla prima all’ultima pagina. Bernd Brunner, studioso e scrittore eclettico, si è occupato soprattutto di storia delle idee e della cultura in rapporto al sapere scientifico. Ha studiato a Berlino e Seattle e ha collaborato con il Bard Graduate Center for Studies in Decorative Arts and Culture di New York, con la Bancroft Library della University of California a Berkeley e con il Goethe Institut di San Francisco. I suoi libri sono stati tradotti in numerose lingue.
- ISBN: 8833970345
- Casa Editrice: Bollati Boringhieri
- Pagine: 226
- Data di uscita: 30-10-2010
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Ok, let's list all the non-textual reasons I gave this book five stars. 1) In hardcover, the book was a beautifully sized 8 1/4 by 5 inches, which I haven't really encountered in American books, but is an extremely comfortable size (and portable) size. 2) Maybe it was to pad out the relative brevity o Leggi tutto
now THIS is how you write a bear book !! learned ample bear facts (ask me abt cave bear theories and Transylvanian bear mythos) and enjoyed the historical illustrations most of all .. 🐻 would recommend this book to anyone interested in the HBI (human-bear interface) not an exhaustive read of course Leggi tutto
A very interesting book, but trying to parse all of human/bear history into roughly 250 pages before the bibliography while also including numerous pictures may have been a bit ambitious. There were multiple times when I felt the author trailed off, suddenly changed topics, or presentented some outd Leggi tutto
This short book, packed with illustrations and photos, is a brief history of bears and their relationships with humans. The book starts with a brief look at the different species of bears alive in the world then looks at different aspects of our relationships with them going back to how stone age hu Leggi tutto
When paleolithic man first encountered the prehistoric ancestor of the modern bear, he saw an animal capable of standing on two legs. Since Northern Europeans did not see the great apes until the 18th or 19th century, bears became our ancestors in myths and folklore. Brunner's book traces all the wa Leggi tutto
This book could have been so much better. The book chronicles the history of bear/human interactions. The book only briefly covers the natural history of the bear, sadly. But the history itself was pretty interesting and well documented. The reason why I gave this book only two stars was because of t Leggi tutto
This book was full of many interesting facts that I really enjoyed. The reason for the lower rating was because I wasn't fond of hearing all the many stories of how humans are horrible to bears. While important to know about, not something I want to casually read in my free time.
It was brief, and it was about bears; what more could I want? It was also informative and very charming in a compact, guidebook kind of way, and told me what I wanted to know. Also: great cover.
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