James Macdonald Lockhart
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
376 pages : illustrations (black and white), portrait (black and white) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
From the merlin to the golden eagle, the goshawk to the honey buzzard, James Macdonald Lockhart’s stunning debut is a quest of beak, talon, wing, and sky. On its surface, Raptor is a journey across the British Isles in search of fifteen species of birds of prey, but as Lockhart seeks out these elusive predators, his quest becomes so much more: an incomparably elegant elegy on the beauty of the British landscape and, through the birds, a journey...