Name: Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl, Paperback/Jonathan C. Slaght
Brand: Picador USA
Price: 100.99 RON
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 Longlisted for the National Book Award Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist: Minnesota Book Awards, Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award A Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Wall Street Journal , Smithsonian , Minneapolis Star-Tribune , The Globe and Mail , The BirdBooker Report , Geographical, Open Letter Review Best Nature Book of the Year: The Times (London) A terrifically exciting account of [Slaght's] time in the Russian Far East studying Blakiston's fish owls, huge, shaggy-feathered, yellow-eyed, and elusive birds that hunt fish by wading in icy water . . . Even on the hottest summer days this book will transport you." -- Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk , in Kirkus I saw my first Blakiston's fish owl in the Russian province of Primorye, a coastal talon of land hooking south into the belly of Northeast Asia . . . No scientist had seen a Blakiston's fish owl so far south in a hundred years . . . When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. He snapped a quick photo and shared it with experts. Soon he was on a five-year journey, searching for this enormous, enigmatic creature in the lush, remote forests of eastern Russia. That first sighting set his calling as a scientist. Despite a wingspan of six feet and a height of ove