Blue Bear, the
Author(s): Schooler Lyn
A friendship forged in the Alaskan wilderness. A journey to find a near mythic creature. A quest that changed a life and took a life. His body twisted by adolescent scoliosis, Lynn Schooler's soul was scarred from the loneliness of someone who, at an early age, stood 'at a strange angle to the rest of the world'. He made a life on the slim crescent of remote Alaskan coastline surrounding the city of Juneau, a place where he was least likely to encounter people. In 1990, celebrated Japanese photographer Michio Hoshino hired Schooler to help him shoot a segment on humpback whales in Glacier Bay, and the two formed a profound friendship. Their conversations often revolved around the glacier bear (known as the blue bear for its unique granite-coloured fur), a nearly extinct creature so rare that it is shrouded in legend. Together the two men became obsessed with finding the animal, every year searching through Ice-Age vistas to capture the blue bear on film. Their obsession cost Hoshino his life when he was killed by a grizzly bear - but alone in the eighth year, Schooler finally found and photographed the elusive creature. (Preceeding text courtesy www.randomhouse.co.uk) Trade Paperback
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- : vinteb
- : vinteb
- : 0.388
- : 06 June 2002
- : United Kingdom
- : books
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- : 288
- : Paperback
- : Schooler Lyn