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How to Survive a Bear Attack

A Memoir

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 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE 2025 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION • Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail • CBC • Spotify • The Hill Times

In this debut memoir from the bestselling author of The Bear and The Last Neanderthal, Claire Cameron confronts the rare genetic mutation that gave her cancer by investigating an equally rare and terrifying event—a predatory bear attack.

When 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.
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.
Seamlessly weaving together nature writing with true crime investigation in this unflinching account of recovery, How to Survive a Bear Attack is 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. Science Sciences biologiques Voyageurs et explorateurs Survie Mémoires

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE 2025 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR NON-FICTION • Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail • CBC • Spotify • The Hill Times

“At once a memoir, a meticulously researched investigation, and a medita­tion on the force of nature, Claire Cameron weaves the narrative together seamlessly in a tale of courage, determination, and, above all else, love. A remarkable achievement that teaches us not only how to survive, but how to thrive, even when the odds are stacked against you.” —David A. Robertson, author of The Theory of Crows and Black Water

“Deeply researched and profoundly moving, Claire Cameron’s wonderful book is, at root, a braided love story, by turns heartbreaking and terrifying, but above all brimming with a fierce affection—for her family, for her subjects, and for the precious, precarious act of staying alive. I could not put it down.” —John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather and The Tiger

“True wilderness has no narrative. It is immediate, and visceral, beyond words at the time, and often beyond description later. So, it speaks to Claire Cameron’s courage and skill as a writer that she has triumphantly wrested such a compelling and profound story out of her journey, both into the wild heart of bear country, and into the terror-filled landscape of a devastating cancer diagnosis. How to Survive a Bear Attack is a transcen­dent, powerfully moving, brilliant literary achievement.” —Helen Humphreys, author of Followed by the Lark

“Stunning . . . offers nature writing at its finest. At its heart, How to Survive a Bear Attack is an unforgettable story about finding the courage to face even the wildest of natures within and around us all.” —Winnipeg Free Press

“In a masterful fusion of forensic journalism, nature reporting and memoir, Claire Cameron’s account of a deadly incident explores mortality and the consciousness of the wild. How to Survive a Bear Attack paddles readers through Algonquin Park rivers and into the halls of medicine, asking them to be brave and inquisitive in order to survive the unexpected.” —Governor General’s Literary Award peer assessment committee (Kevin Chong, Norma Dunning and Adrienne Gruber)

“A brave book.” —Literary Review of Canada
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I liked the factual aspects of this book, but skipped the sections that presumed to know what that particular bear was thinking and feeling. But the author's reading made the book almost unbearable to listen to. She should have had a professional read the story as the stilted monotonous tone was painful!

Stilted Reading Ruined the Book

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I think I’m going to get a copy of this book and re-read the hard copy to see if it was the stilted and emotionless delivery that make it so difficult to connect to the story or if it was the way it’s written. I can personally relate to the material and because it is the author’s own story, I very much wanted to love this and gain inspiration and survive my own “bear attack.” I hope by reading the book myself, I will have a better connection.

The narration was stilted and robotic

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The beginning is ok and she consulted trust worthy people. As a bear nerd and hunter, I started to disagree with some of the books statements from the part the bear recognized a gun, and that he (in the author’s imagination) nonchalantly bit a subadult to protect a food source without even considering the smaller bear as a food source despite the way too common cannibalism among bears. It really threw me off when the author claims the predatory attack was driven by the bears hunger, sex drive, and shame/resentment from his previous human encounter. The book took anthropomorphizing too far in attempt to understand the animal as an individual.

Anthropomorphizing

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