Raptor: A Journey through Birds Edición Kindle

"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 Leer más

Detalles del producto ASIN : B06VX3LFDG Editorial : The University of Chicago Press; Illustrated edición (7 Abril 2017) Fecha de publicación : 7 Abril 2017 Idioma : Inglés Tamaño del archivo : 3574 KB Texto a voz : Activado Lector de pantalla: : Respaldados Composición tipográfica mejorada : Activado X-Ray : No activado Word Wise : Activado Notas adhesivas : En Kindle Scribe Número de páginas : 385 páginas Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº1,159,049 en Tienda Kindle (Ver el Top 100 en Tienda Kindle) nº93 en Ornitología (Tienda Kindle) nº311 en Observación de Aves (Tienda Kindle) nº439 en Reino Unido Guías de Viaje Opiniones de clientes: 4.5 de 5 estrellas 78 calificaciones ASIN : B06VX3LFDG Editorial : The University of Chicago Press; Illustrated edición (7 Abril 2017) Fecha de publicación : 7 Abril 2017 Idioma : Inglés Tamaño del archivo : 3574 KB Texto a voz : Activado Lector de pantalla: : Respaldados Composición tipográfica mejorada : Activado X-Ray : No activado Word Wise : Activado Notas adhesivas : En Kindle Scribe Número de páginas : 385 páginas