Owls of the eastern ice : a quest to find and save the world's largest owl / Jonathan C. Slaght.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250798718 (paperback)
- ISBN: 125079871X (paperback)
- Physical Description: 348 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Picador paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Picador, 2021
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
General Note: | First published in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-331) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | PART 1. BAPTISM BY ICE -- A village named Hell -- The first search -- Winter life in Agzu -- The quiet violence of this place -- Down the river -- Chepelev -- Here comes the water -- Riding the last ice to the coast -- Village of Samarga -- The Vladimir Goluzenko -- PART 2. FISH OWLS OF THE SIKHOTE-ALIN -- The sound of something ancient -- A fish owl nest -- Where the mile markers end -- The banality of road travel -- Flood -- PART 3. CAPTURES -- Preparing to trap -- A near miss -- The hermit -- Stranded on the Tunsha River -- An owl in hand -- Radio silence -- The owl and the pigeon -- Leap of faith -- The currency of fish -- Enter Katkov -- Capture on the Serebryanka -- Awful devils such as us -- Katkov in exile -- The monotony of failure -- Following the fish -- California of the east -- Terney County without filter -- Blakiston's fish owl conservation -- EPILOGUE |
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Genre: | Travel writing. Travel writing. |
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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Burlington Public Library | 598.97 SLAGHT 2021 | 39851001615450 | Non-fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |
Jonathan C. Slaght is the Russia and Northeast Asia coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society, where he manages research projects on endangered species and coordinates avian conservation activities along the East AsiaâAustralasian Flyway from the Arctic to the tropics. His annotated translation of Across the Ussuri Kray, by Vladimir Arsenyev, was published in 2016, and his work has been featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, the BBC World Service, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, and Audubon magazine, among others. His new book, Owls of the Eastern Ice, won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award as well as the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction, and was longlisted for the National Book Award. He lives in Minneapolis.