Neighborhood Hawks
A Year Following Wild Birds
After reading J. A. Baker's fifty-year-old British nature classic The Peregrine, John Lane found himself an ocean away, stalking resident red-shouldered hawks in his neighborhood in Spartanburg, South Carolina. What he observed was very different from what Baker deduced from a decade of chronicling the lives of those brooding migratory raptors. Baker imagined a species on the brink of extinction because of the use of agricultural chemicals on European farms. A half century later in America, Lane found the red-shouldered hawks to be a stable Anthropocene species adapted to life along the waterways of a suburban nation.Lane watched the hawks fo…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8203-5493-4
- EAN: 9780820354934
- Produktnummer: 28853449
- Verlag: University of Georgia Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 120 S.
- Masse: H12.7 cm x B20.1 cm x D1.3 cm 222 g
- Gewicht: 222
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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John Lane was born in Sydney in 1948. The first of a Yorkshire emigrant family to be born in Australia. He is a life-long surfer and has travelled extensively throughout the United States, Central America, England and Europe. He is now retired, and lives with his wife, Mary, in the beach community of Nelson Bay on the New South Wales mid coast. This is his first novel.
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