The Good Polar Bear

Louie Brown

Description

In hand to hand combat a geologist finds himself saving the life of a polar bear from hunters, and later saving one of her cubs trapped in a crevasse.
His bravery was repaid some years later, when he finds himself injured and grave danger of freezing to death.
This book contains many interesting facts.

Sujets

• Juvenilee Fiction

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• Publié par: Xlibris AU
• Date de parution: 26 août 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781984506641
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Copyright © 2020 by Louie Brown. 803309

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents

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ISBN:

Softcover

978-1-9845-0665-8

EBook

978-1-9845-0664-1

Audio

978-1-9845-0859-1

Illustrated by Daniel Majan

Rev. date: 04/28/2023

The Good Polar Bear
Tonight, I will tell you the story about my friend, Nathan, and a polar bear.
o o o o o o
Nathan, Yang to his friends, was a good student in his school days and a better one when he attended university in his quest to be an outstanding geologist – a degree he passed with honors some years later.
He thought the name Yang was “cool” and that it had some mysterious meaning which it does in Chinese philosophy.
His mother and father had been respected jewelers in his hometown of Houston, Texas, and it was their interest in precious stones that motivated Yang to pursue his geology quest.
He had worked in the diamond mines in South Africa, where he was involved in design of the enormous pumps used in the ocean just outside some river mouths, where many diamonds had been washed out to the sea for thousands of years.
He had then gone to the Argyle Mines in the Kimberley area in Western Australia for five years.
He was offered a job in Canada because of his experience in Africa and Australia and, without hesitation, he accepted the offer.
He was not prepared for the weather which could become unbelievably cold, but stuck it out long enough to love the country.
His first posting was to Ekati in Canada’s Northwest Territory, where he learned some local customs and the ways of some of the resident animals. Ekati would be his home base for the next three years.
He was used to living alone, and while collecting samples for study six months after arrival in Canada, was camped not far from the edge of one of thousands of Canada’s lakes, when he became aware of voices not far away. He raised the entry flap of his tent and saw two hunters looking at his motorized sled. They were both on foot and must have left their sleds not too far away.
He got up to greet them and they told him that they were on the trail of a polar bear that had killed an extremely valuable dog, a husky, trained for use with sleds.
Yang did not believe what they told him, but pretended that he did. The two moved on and Yang thought about the story they had told him.
There was no village within miles from where they were and Yang thought that they might be looking for an arctic fox or caribou, so he told himself that he should keep a lookout for them over the next day or two – until he returned to his base camp.
He thought that it was the off season for hunting but did not know for certain as he was neither a hunter nor a ranger and had no interest.
It was June and the daylight hours long. So, while the sky was bright with sunlight it was past his bedtime, even for an adult.
Yang had, for the first time, worn one of his new snow outfits. It was highly noticeable, being green and gold in color with a large red cross on the front and back of the jacket. These were to be the only colors he wore in Canada.
When he roused himself seven hours later, his first thoughts were about his two visitors last night.