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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Author: James Macdonald Lockhart
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022647061X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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“This illuminating book serves as homage to a brilliant naturalist and extraordinary birds. If you loved H Is for Hawk, put this next on your reading list.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) From the merlin to the golden eagle, the goshawk to the honey buzzard, James Macdonald Lockhart’s stunning debut is a quest of beak, talon, wing, and sky. On its surface, Raptor is a journey across the British Isles in search of fifteen species of birds of prey, but as Lockhart seeks out these elusive predators, his quest becomes so much more: an incomparably elegant elegy on the beauty of the British landscape and, through the birds, a journey toward understanding an awesome power at the heart of the natural world—a power that is majestic and frightening in its strength, but also fragile. Linking his journey to that of his muse—nineteenth-century Scottish naturalist and artist William MacGillivray—Lockhart shares his own encounters with raptors ranging from the scarce osprey to the successfully reintroduced red kite, a species once protected by medieval royal statute, revealing with poetic immediacy the extraordinary behaviors of these birds and the extreme environments they call home. Creatures both worshipped and reviled, raptors have a talon-hold on the human heart and imagination. With his book, Lockhart unravels these complicated ties in a work by turns reverent and euphoric—an interweaving of history, travel, and nature writing at its best. A hymn to wanderers, to the land and to the sky, and especially to the birds, Raptor soars. “Lockhart’s soaring debut is a perfect synthesis of travel writing and natural history.” —Financial Times
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Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Category : English literature
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Pages : 596
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Author: William Withering
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Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Author: John Claudius Loudon
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Author: William Withering
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Author: Richard Dennis Hoblyn
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Author: William Withering
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Author: Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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