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Author Slaght, Jonathan C., author.

Title Owls of the eastern ice : a quest to find and save the world's largest owl / Jonathan C. Slaght.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2012659~S1
Location Call No. Status
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  598.97 SLA    WORKROOM
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  598.97 SLA    AVAILABLE
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Description 348 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-331) and index.
Contents A village named Hell -- The first search -- Winter life in Agzu -- The quiet violence of this place -- Down the river -- Chepelev -- Here comes the water -- Riding the last ice to the coast -- Village of Samarga -- The Vladimir Goluzenko -- The sound of something ancient -- A fish owl nest -- Where the mile markers end -- The banality of road travel -- Flood -- Preparing to trap -- A near miss -- The hermit -- Stranded on the Tunsha River -- An owl in hand -- Radio silence -- The owl and the pigeon -- Leap of faith -- The currency of fish -- Enter Katkov -- Capture on the Serebryanka -- Awful devils such as us -- Katkov in exile -- The monotony of failure -- Following the fish -- California of the east -- Terney County without filter -- Blakiston's fish owl conservation.
Summary "A young field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Slaght, Jonathan C. -- Travel -- Russia (Federation) -- Russian Far East.
Blakiston's fish-owl -- Russia (Federation) -- Russian Far East.
Blakiston's fish-owl -- Conservation -- Russia (Federation) -- Russian Far East.
Russian Far East (Russia) -- Description and travel.
ISBN 9780374228484 (hardcover)
9781250798718 (paperback)
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