The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life

"The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life" by Charles G. D. Roberts portrays the intense lives of animals in Canada's wild habitats during the early 1900s. Tales from the collection reveal the challenges and relationships found in the animal kingdom, all set in their natural settings. The story starts with a polar bear cub's birth during a tough Arctic winter, where it finds warmth and food with its mother while dodging the dangers of the frozen world. As the story builds, we see how the mother bear hunts and teaches her cub important survival skills, highlighting the tough physical tasks they encounter, like starvation and hunting techniques, while also alluding to larger themes like the basic need to survive, the strong relationship between a mother and her offspring, and the raw facts of life in the wild.