After enduring a vicious bear attack in the Russian Far Easts Kamchatka Peninsula a French anthropologist undergoes a physical and spiritual transformation that forces her to confront the tenuous distinction between animal and human. In the Eye of the Wild begins with an account of the French anthropologist Nastassja Martins near fatal runin with a Kamchatka bear in the mountains of Siberia. Martins professional interest is animism she addresses philosophical questions about the relation of hum