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20/100Critics
74/100Scholars
Author:
Jack Emerson Davis
Publisher:
Liveright
Date:
March 1, 2022
A sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America.
What The Reviewers Say
Davis...makes clear in his rollicking, poetic, wise new book that cultural and political history are an integral part of this natural history, not to be omitted if we want to tell the whole story.
Davis’s most surprising contribution is to show how adulation of the natural world can accelerate its destruction. We came very close to loving the bald eagle to death.
... an impressive work of scholarship by Mr. Davis.
Davis is a superb natural historian with a lyrical feel for the eagle's world—its quirks, its habits and its extraordinary survival skills. He sketches vivid portraits of the artists, scientists and eagle-loving eccentrics who thought nothing of perching in a tree for weeks to document eagle life. These character sketches do overstuff the narrative, which might have been better served by focusing on fewer outsized personalities. Still, this is an extraordinary and fundamentally optimistic story, and it sends a message we need to hear, as we face the formidable environmental challenges of the 21st century..
