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Raptor : a journey through birds : with a new preface / James Macdonald Lockhart.

by Lockhart, James Macdonald, 1975-

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The University of Chicago Press, c2017.

598.07234 L816r

Birds of prey -- Great Britain.

Bird watching -- Great Britain -- Anecdotes.

Great Britain -- Description and travel.

9780226470580 (hc)

022647058X (hc)

376 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Hen harrier -- Merlin -- Golden eagle -- Osprey -- Sea eagle -- Goshawk -- Kestrel -- Montagu's harrier -- Peregrine falcon -- Red kite -- Marsh harrier -- Honey buzzard -- Hobby -- Buzzard -- Sparrowhawk.

From the merlin to the golden eagle, the goshawk to the honey buzzard, James Macdonald Lockharts 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 to the beauty of the British landscape and, through the birds, a journey toward understanding an awesome power at the heart of the natural worlda power that is majestic and frightening in its strength, but also fragile.

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