The Bald Eagle

The Improbable Journey of America's Bird

The Bald Eagle
Jack E Davis
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Hardback
h235 x 156mm - 432pg
15 Apr 2022 US
International import eta 10-30 days
9781631495250
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The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you' re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble," yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation' s founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples lived beside it peacefully with that when others, whether through hunting bounties or DDT pesticides, twice pushed Haliaeetus leucocephalus to the brink of extinction. Filled with spectacular stories of Founding Fathers, rapacious hunters, heroic bird rescuers, and the lives of bald eagles themselves-monogamous creatures, considered among the animal world' s finest parents-The Bald Eagle is a much-awaited cultural and natural history that demonstrates how this bird' s wondrous journey may provide inspiration today, as we grapple with environmental peril on a larger scale.
A majestic history of the bald eagle and how it has reflected the nation' s changing relationship to nature. . . The author' s consistently lively, captivating narrative celebrates the naturalists, scientists, activists, artists (Andy Warhol, among them), politicians, and breeders who have championed the extraordinary "charismatic raptor. . . A rousing tale of a species' survival. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Jack E. Davis is the author of the award-winning The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea and An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century. A professor of environmental history at the University of Florida, he lives in Florida and New Hampshire.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781631495250
Published: 15 Apr 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 432

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