The Bears Embrace: A Story of Survival by Van Tighem, Patric

ISBN: 0375421319

Author: Van Tighem, Patricia

Condition: new

An extraordinary story of survival and recovery by a woman who was attacked by a grizzly bear.On a sunny fall day in 1983, Patricia Van Tighem and her husband, Trevor, began a hiking trip in the Canadian Rockies with a two-thousand-foot climb through rocks and forest. The next morning, in a landscape dusted by snow, they crossed paths with a grizzly bear-and their lives were forever changed.That Van Tighem survived at all is a miracle, and her account of the attack is vivid and startling. But her recovery was just as disturbing: Her numerous reconstructive surgeries were painful; her facialdisfigurement isolated her; and the nightmares that haunted her carried their own psychological burden. Yet she was eventually able to accept her unthinkable experiences, and to put her life back together as a survivor, a wife, and a mother.With honesty and eloquence, The Bear