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Eaten: A novel Kindle Edition

by Susan Crockford (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
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A Terrifying Polar Bear Attack Thriller. It’s 2025, in Newfoundland, Canada. In the small northern town of St. Anthony, a local family is ambushed by a polar bear just beyond their front door. On Fogo Island to the east, a tourist and a resident are killed in separate early morning attacks in two remote outports. These incidents are the first known polar bear fatalities in Newfoundland’s history, despite regular late spring visits from the bears. But these people haven’t just been killed, they’ve been eaten. As the attacks multiply, it’s clear that people are not safe even in their own homes. Totally unprepared for the onslaught, local residents, Mounties, and biologists struggle with a disturbing new reality: they have a huge polar bear problem on their hands, and if they don’t find a solution quickly, dozens more people will die gruesome deaths, and hundreds more polar bears will be shot. A Newfoundland seal biologist gets help from a transplanted Alaskan carnivore specialist as they team up with officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Mounties) but stopping the carnage and relentless terror will be the biggest challenge they’ve ever faced. Will this turn out to be the most horrifying disaster in Newfoundland’s long history?
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Being from a storytelling family pays off: if you hear stories often enough, you find you can tell them too. Susan J. Crockford is a professional zoologist who has studied polar bear ecology and evolution for more than 20 years and has a special interest in the history of human-polar bear interactions. She has a Ph.D. and writes a blog called PolarBearScience. After years of writing scientific papers and books and blogging about polar bears for non-scientists, Susan has written her first novel—for readers who prefer their science “lite” and love a good story.

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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 319 pages
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4.2 out of 5 stars
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William Geddes
5.0 out of 5 stars First Class Zoological Fiction.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 February 2021
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I recently reviewed Susan Crockford’s novel “Upheaval” and said that it was difficult to put down. I have now finished her earlier novel “Eaten” and found that it was even more unputdownable. The story takes place in 2025 and refers to an imaginary swarm of hungry polar bears whose natural food source disappears and who come ashore in northern Newfoundland and start eating people. The descriptions are scary and horrific, and she handles the human side of the tragedy well. The solution to the problem is expensive but ingenious. The timing of the incident is crucial and the implications relevant to Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) – or the lack of it – are very relevant. Although the story is fictional it remains plausible as a future event. In reading the book one also learns a lot about the habits and ecology of polar bears (the icon of Warmists) and also of seals. If “Upheaval” is first-class geological fiction, then “Eaten” may be classified as first-class zoological fiction on a par with Delia Owens’ “Where the Crawdads Sing”, which I also recommend. It is interesting that both authors are successful academic naturalists who have also turned their talents to writing fiction.
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Michael Hoddinott
4.0 out of 5 stars Quite a gripping novel considering it was written by an ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 December 2017
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Quite a gripping novel considering it was written by an academic rather than a novelist. The facts about polar bear populations and behaviour were well presented within the dialogue without being too preachy and certainly raises awareness that all is not as we are told by the "global warming scientific consensus".
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Jockdownsouth
5.0 out of 5 stars Compulsive reading, and it could happen
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 December 2015
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Susan Crockford is an expert on polar bears and writes an excellent blog at "Polar Bear Science". This book, which I believe is her first novel, portrays a "what if" scenario combining the recent increase (yes, increase) in sea ice off Newfoundland with an epidemic that kills off the seals that are the bears' main source of food. I couldn't put it down. It vividly describes the power and ferocity of adult polar bears and the ease with which they can attack and eat unsuspecting humans if hunger drives them ashore. There are the inevitable clashes between "conservationists" and the authorities, with tragic consequences. Unlike the computer models, this is based on real knowledge and experience. It could happen. Highly recommended.
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V.Jane Shaddick
5.0 out of 5 stars Be aware of the bears !!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 November 2015
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Be aware of the bears !!
Read this book & I can guarantee that you will change your thoughts about polar bears forever.
This new author is an expect in her field. You will ask yourself - is this a work of fiction or a scientific prediction of the effects of climate change on the world's wildlife AND humans. "You've got a lot of hungry bears out there. It's that simple - and that terrifying".
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Occasional Thinker
3.0 out of 5 stars Readable, good yarn, but uninspired writing style
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 December 2015
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You can tell this author is a careful, painstaking scientist who wants to describe things exactly as she is seeing them. Her work with polar bears is not only very highly regarded, she is too for having the courage to stand up to the dreadful eco-lobby who had adopted the polar bear as a poster-child for their ignorant climate change campaigns, not least those targeted, and inexcusable shame on them for that, at young children. Oh that more scientists had an ounce of her integrity! But coming back to the novel, I think it is a bit on the plodding side with far too much detail given on mundane things that a writer with a lighter touch would not have thought to spell out. But it may well have the makings of a successful movie, and perhaps directors would appreciate the step-by-step guidance they would find in it.
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1.0 out of 5 stars The author wanted to write a book like Jaws - after all the horrific consequences this had ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 May 2016
Ugh. Badly written. The author wanted to write a book like Jaws - after all the horrific consequences this had for sharks, really?! She is also an armchair scientist receiving monthly payments from the climate change denying Heartland Institute ([...]).
No doubt peer review is necessary in science, but someone who doesn't even go out and do her own reseach, but critiques secondary sources she finds online doesn't really qualify!
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as tenterfield up
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Australia on 15 December 2017
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Wow awesome reading- hope it never gets this bad
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Ron Truman
5.0 out of 5 stars Full of thrills and important information
Reviewed in Canada on 27 April 2016
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Childish about bears? Still thinking at the Winnie-the-Pooh level about cutesy animals sitting on their little bear bums eating honey from a pot? Imagining you’d like to cuddle them and protect them from harm?
If you are prepared to mature in your thinking about wildlife, Susan Crockford’s novel Eaten is a good jolt to start your growth.
The polar bears in her book are terrifyingly genuine, a result of Ms. Crockford’s professional knowledge of the animal’s anatomy, habits and behaviours. As the characters in her book go blithely about their business, unaware that a gigantic bear is about to attack them by surprise, it’s enough to send shivers up the spine of anyone who has ever been in polar bear country. Her description of how these humungous carnivores actually kill and devour their prey is chilling, enough to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
More important, the realistic ecology presented in the book is far more sophisticated than the media-driven mantra that variations in ice coverage will lead inevitably to the extinction of the icebears. Anyone reading the book has a unique opportunity to learn some lessons about what polar bear conservation really entails.
The characters in the novel illustrate something I have long believed to be true. Wildlife biologists and wildlife managers often have chosen their career path because they prefer dealing with animals to dealing with people. The irony is that a wildlife specialist who is very successful with his or her chosen species often ends up getting “promoted” to dealing with homo sapiens, a less predictable species they often like to avoid.
Ms. Crockford seems to be the exception to the rule. She shows a profound understanding of both people and bears. In her first novel, she is able to write a story that illustrates the basic tension between what the public would like to believe and what honest wildlife scientists know to be true.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read
Reviewed in the United States on 14 January 2016
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The story is fast paced and exciting. The characters are well defined and believable. Just think if the fear you would have if suddenly confronted by hungry polar bears. There is some truth to this story as it's very probable this has happened to a lesser degree already due to nature and not global warming. This story will keep you up nights.
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Athenarot
5.0 out of 5 stars Dramatic and arresting account
Reviewed in Germany on 6 January 2016
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The story combines the invented plot with scientific facts of polar bears and this is what makes the novel original and worth reading it. It gives another, fresh perspective on ecological issues and spurs the reader on thinking beyond the environmental dogmas.
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MacSchrinque
4.0 out of 5 stars Educational science-not-so-fictional
Reviewed in Canada on 11 February 2020
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Engaging read brings the baleful light of reality to shine on the current climate hoax hysteria.
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