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Title: Looking for the Goshawk
Author: Conor Mark Jameson
Narrator: Alex Wyndham
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-28-14
Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
The book traces Conor Jameson's travels in search of the Goshawk, a magnificent yet rarely seen (in Britain at least) raptor. Each episode of the narrative arises from personal experience, investigation, and the unearthing of information from research, exploration, and conversations.
The journey takes him from an encounter with a stuffed Goshawk in a glass case, through travels into supposed Goshawk territories in Britain, to Berlin - where he finds the bird at ease in the city. Why, he wants to know, is the bird so rarely seen in Britain?
He explores the politics of birdwatching, the sport of falconry and the impact of persecution on the recent history of the bird in Britain and travels the length of Britain, through central Europe, and the USA in search of answers to the goshawk mystery. Throughout his journey he is inspired by the writings of T. H. White, who told of his attempts to tame a Goshawk in his much-loved book. It's a gripping tale on the trail of a most mysterious and charismatic bird.
Members Reviews:
Academic, but highly entertaining
I was drawn to this book in an unusual way. I received an email message from an English, naturalist writer friend, Neil AnsellDeer Island, who told me I had been quoted in the new book about the Goshawk. Now, while I am a bit of a Nature Crazy myself, I can't really be considered a "Birder". I have also never been to the UK, but the cover image was so inviting, that I dived in.
Looking for the Goshawk is certainly an academic work. The author follows the careful need for corroborative evidence in a scientific manner as he goes about trying to find the elusive Accipiter Raptor. There is a great deal of scholarly information here. He covers the same ground not just a few times, but his writing voice is so accessible and emotionally charged, it was mostly a delight to follow his complex journey. Beginning with his exposure to a stuffed, glass-cased female hawk in a curio shop, he is filled with awe, admiration and an equal share of revulsion and sadness which mirrors my own experience viewing a stuffed Passenger Pigeon in the NY Museum of Natural History shortly after my arrival in NY in 1973. His description of his feelings and his almost obsessive need to act on them is something I understood completely. I too have always felt the awe and love of predatory birds; so what becomes a true quest, as the pages of Looking for Goshawk unfold, was something I could relate to. His immediate and engaging writing style certainly carried me over any obstacles.
As the book deals chiefly with English and Scottish locales, place names and cultural icons, I was often at a loss. On the other hand, we Americans tend to take our diversity of wildlife and the overwhelming recovery of our predatory bird species, largely for granted. Learning of the extinction of several species of native raptors in the UK, mostly at the hands of a very restrictive game management culture, shocked my sensibilities. The recovery of the Goshawk and other species, such as the Osprey in such a hostile environment is proof of the power of life and the effective work of a few committed people.
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Title: Looking for the Goshawk
Author: Conor Mark Jameson
Narrator: Alex Wyndham
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-28-14
Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
The book traces Conor Jameson's travels in search of the Goshawk, a magnificent yet rarely seen (in Britain at least) raptor. Each episode of the narrative arises from personal experience, investigation, and the unearthing of information from research, exploration, and conversations.
The journey takes him from an encounter with a stuffed Goshawk in a glass case, through travels into supposed Goshawk territories in Britain, to Berlin - where he finds the bird at ease in the city. Why, he wants to know, is the bird so rarely seen in Britain?
He explores the politics of birdwatching, the sport of falconry and the impact of persecution on the recent history of the bird in Britain and travels the length of Britain, through central Europe, and the USA in search of answers to the goshawk mystery. Throughout his journey he is inspired by the writings of T. H. White, who told of his attempts to tame a Goshawk in his much-loved book. It's a gripping tale on the trail of a most mysterious and charismatic bird.
Members Reviews:
Academic, but highly entertaining
I was drawn to this book in an unusual way. I received an email message from an English, naturalist writer friend, Neil AnsellDeer Island, who told me I had been quoted in the new book about the Goshawk. Now, while I am a bit of a Nature Crazy myself, I can't really be considered a "Birder". I have also never been to the UK, but the cover image was so inviting, that I dived in.
Looking for the Goshawk is certainly an academic work. The author follows the careful need for corroborative evidence in a scientific manner as he goes about trying to find the elusive Accipiter Raptor. There is a great deal of scholarly information here. He covers the same ground not just a few times, but his writing voice is so accessible and emotionally charged, it was mostly a delight to follow his complex journey. Beginning with his exposure to a stuffed, glass-cased female hawk in a curio shop, he is filled with awe, admiration and an equal share of revulsion and sadness which mirrors my own experience viewing a stuffed Passenger Pigeon in the NY Museum of Natural History shortly after my arrival in NY in 1973. His description of his feelings and his almost obsessive need to act on them is something I understood completely. I too have always felt the awe and love of predatory birds; so what becomes a true quest, as the pages of Looking for Goshawk unfold, was something I could relate to. His immediate and engaging writing style certainly carried me over any obstacles.
As the book deals chiefly with English and Scottish locales, place names and cultural icons, I was often at a loss. On the other hand, we Americans tend to take our diversity of wildlife and the overwhelming recovery of our predatory bird species, largely for granted. Learning of the extinction of several species of native raptors in the UK, mostly at the hands of a very restrictive game management culture, shocked my sensibilities. The recovery of the Goshawk and other species, such as the Osprey in such a hostile environment is proof of the power of life and the effective work of a few committed people.