The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton
Read now or download (free!)
| Choose how to read this book | Url | Size | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read online (web) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25023.html.images | 139 kB | ||||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25023.epub3.images | 2.4 MB | ||||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25023.epub.images | 2.4 MB | ||||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25023.epub.noimages | 102 kB | ||||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25023.kf8.images | 2.5 MB | ||||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25023.kindle.images | 2.4 MB | ||||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25023.txt.utf-8 | 101 kB | ||||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25023/pg25023-h.zip | 2.3 MB | ||||
| There may be more files related to this item. | ||||||
Similar Books
About this eBook
| Author | Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Biography of a Grizzly |
| Note | Illustrated by the author. |
| Note | Reading ease score: 82.5 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Credits |
Produced by Chris Curnow, Wolfgang Menges, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net |
| Summary | "The Biography of a Grizzly" by Ernest Thompson Seton is a naturalist narrative written in the late 19th century. This book offers a blend of biography and fictional storytelling to explore the life of a grizzly bear named Wahb, showcasing his experiences, struggles, and interactions in the wild. Its primary focus encapsulates the challenges that wildlife, particularly the majestic grizzly bear, faces in a rapidly encroaching human world. The book follows Wahb from his early cubhood, where he enjoys the carefree life with his mother and siblings, to a tragic event that leaves him motherless and struggling for survival. As Wahb grows, he encounters various dangers, including other animals and hunters, and his experiences shape his character into a strong but solitary bear. Throughout his life, he contends with the challenges of loneliness and the fight for dominance against both animal rivals and human threats, leading to his eventual recognition as a powerful creature of the wilderness. The narrative ultimately reflects on themes of survival, loss, and the impacts of human encroachment on nature, culminating in a poignant conclusion about the bear's final days. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Grizzly bear -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 25023 |
| Release Date | Apr 8, 2008 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 3, 2021 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 139 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |
