Jack E. Davis

The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America.

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 themselvesmonogamous creatures, considered among the animal world's finest parentsThe 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liveright
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781631495267
• Artikelnr.: 62199342

Autorenporträt

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.