The Bald Eagle
The Improbable Journey of America's Bird
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 United States' 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…
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- ISBN: 978-1-63149-525-0
- EAN: 9781631495250
- Produktnummer: 36705460
- Verlag: WW Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Masse: H16.5 cm x B24.4 cm x D4.1 cm 772 g
- Gewicht: 772
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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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