Looking for the Goshawk - Couverture souple

Jameson, Conor Mark

 
9781472969170: Looking for the Goshawk

Synopsis

The book traces Conor Jameson's travels in search of the Goshawk, a magnificent yet rarely seen (in Britain at least) raptor. Each episode of the narrative arises from personal experience, investigation, and the unearthing of information from research, exploration and conversations.

The journey takes him from an encounter with a stuffed Goshawk in a glass case, through travels into supposed Goshawk territories in Britain, to Berlin - where he finds the bird at ease in the city. Why, he wants to know, is the bird so rarely seen in Britain?

He explores the politics of birdwatching, the sport of falconry and the impact of persecution on the recent history of the bird in Britain and travels the length of Britain, through central Europe and the USA in search of answers to the goshawk mystery. Throughout his journey he is inspired by the writings of T H White who told of his attempts to tame a Goshawk in his much-loved book.

It's a gripping tale on the trail of a most mysterious and charismatic bird.

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À propos de l?auteur

Conor Mark Jameson is the author of Silent Spring Revisited and the upcoming Looking for the Goshawk. Conor has written for The Guardian, BBC Wildlife, The Ecologist, Africa Geographic, NZ Wilderness, Birdwatch and Birdwatching magazines and has been a scriptwriter for the BBC Natural History Unit. He is a columnist and feature writer for Birds magazine, and has worked in conservation for 20 years, in the UK and abroad. He was born in Uganda to Irish parents, brought up in Scotland, and now lives in England. He lives in village an hour north of London, with a a garden that Google Earth indicates may be reverting to woodland.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781408164877: Looking for the Goshawk

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1408164876 ISBN 13 :  9781408164877
Editeur : A&C Black, 2013
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