The Cage by Schulman, Audrey - 1994

Algonquin Books, 1994. Hardcover. Like New. Like new advance reader's copy. All advance reader's copies are PAPERBACK.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin Books,, 1994.. SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's first novel, named an ALA Notable Book - a "harrowing wilderness adventure story, features an unlikely heroine: five-foot-one photographer Beryl, who must venture deep into the Canadian Arctic, fend off dozens of the world's largest land carnivores, and survive. . . . In Churchill, where the bears gather every autumn to hunt on the frozen Hudson Bay, she barely survives her first hair- raising encounter with a bear while accompanying a policewoman on all-night patrol. The stakes increase as the team boards its state- of-the-art Arctic Traveler bus and ventures 40 miles into the wilderness, where Beryl climbs into her cage and takes pictures as hungry bears try to devour her, . . but her sessions are cut short when the ten-foot monsters chew the bus's fuel tanks to shreds, forcing its passengers to hike unprotected across the tundra in a desperate bid… Read More