The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 bountie…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-63149-526-7
- EAN: 9781631495267
- Produktnummer: 36882171
- Verlag: Liveright
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
Über den Autor
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.
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