About the book: 1978 / In this book, naturalist writer Anatoly Sergeevich Onegov talks about his observations of brown bears. For two years the author lived next to bears in the Arkhangelsk taiga, met them on forest paths, sometimes the bears themselves came to visit him and more than once surprised the author of the book with their behavior. A bear is a good-natured, flexible animal, when it is not offended by a person, so the author of the book comes to the conclusion. And being close to bears in the taiga is not always as scary as it is sometimes described in various stories.