{"product_id":"how-to-survive-a-bear-attack-a-memoir-paperback","title":"How to Survive a Bear Attack: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClaire Cameron\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this powerful debut memoir from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bear\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Neanderthal\u003c\/i\u003e, Claire Cameron confronts the rare genetic mutation that gave her cancer by investigating an equally rare and terrifying event--a predatory bear attack. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Deeply researched and profoundly moving. . . . I could not put it down.\" --John Vaillant \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A remarkable achievement that teaches us not only how to survive, but how to thrive.\" --David A. Robertson \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Claire Cameron was nine years old, her father, a professor of Old English, told her he was dying. In the years after he was gone, she found a way to overcome her grief among the rivers and lakes of Algonquin Park, a vast Canadian wilderness area. Around that same time, in 1991, a couple was killed by a black bear in a rare predatory attack in the park. Claire was shocked and, never fully sure of what happened, the attack haunted her.\u003cbr\u003e Now older, with children of her own, Cameron was diagnosed with the same kind of deadly skin cancer as her father. Caught in a second wave of grief, she was told by her doctor, \"the ideal exposure to UV light is none.\" No longer able to venture into the wilderness as she once had, with long scars on her back, she became obsessed with the bear attack in Algonquin Park again. How could terror rip through such a beautiful place? Could she separate truth from fiction? She headed north to investigate.\u003cbr\u003e Seamlessly weaving together nature writing with true crime investigation in this unflinching account of recovery, \u003ci\u003eHow to Survive a Bear Attack \u003c\/i\u003eis at once an intimate portrait of an extraordinary animal, a bracing chronicle of pain, obsession, and love, and a profoundly moving exploration of how we can understand and survive the wildness that lives inside us.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCLAIRE CAMERON\u003c\/b\u003e's most recent novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Neanderthal, \u003c\/i\u003ewas a national bestseller and a finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. It sold in eleven territories. Her second novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Bear\u003c\/i\u003e, was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, sold in ten territories, and was a #1 national bestseller. It won the Northern Lit Award from the Ontario Library Service, which her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Line Painter\u003c\/i\u003e, also won. Claire has led canoe trips in Algonquin Park and worked as an instructor for Outward Bound, teaching mountaineering, climbing, and whitewater rafting in Oregon and beyond. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and she is a monthly contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 8 x 5.19 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47562114138361,"sku":"9781039056374","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Jm_DniD16z9781039056374.webp?v=1774432262","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/how-to-survive-a-bear-attack-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}