Raptor: A Journey Through Birds - Hardcover
Winner of The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction in 2011 and the Authors' Foundation Roger Deakin Award in 2011.
A book about how raptors and the landscapes they live in have possessed the author; “My eyes are always quivering for birds of prey. I have always been turned to their presence”.
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James Macdonald Lockhart is an associate editor of, and regular contributor to, Archipelago Magazine, and a literary agent at Antony Harwood Limited.
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`Lockhart's prose is so intimate, urgent, and visceral as to make his darkly resonant ruminations almost unfailingly gripping' Independent `A hymn in praise of living, soaring, terrifying grandeur ... his exquisite, poetic language is a sensuous delight without sacrificing scientific accuracy ... A tour de force' Daily Mail `Lockhart puts the rapture back in the raptor. Raptor rips at its words, turning them into exquisite portraits of the utter wild, shaping soaring, obsessive beauty out of the British landscape and its imperial birds. A true heir to J.A. Baker's The Peregrine, and T.H. White's The Goshawk' Philip Hoare `In Lockhart's soaring debut he laces vivid prose with illuminating facts ... He elegantly depicts these creatures of the sky and, in doing so, celebrates the natural richness of the country over which they fly' Financial Times `If you publish a book on birds of prey in the tumultuous wake of Helen MacDonald's prizewinning H is for Hawk, you expect comparisons. James MacDonald Lockhart can relax. His book is outstanding ... Wild birds of prey represent the living spirit of a place- of Britain. In this delicate, complex, open-ended book, full of freshness and movement, he captures that wild spirit without ever making it feel captive' Sunday Times `Lockhart brings out both the birds' ecstatic gifts of flight but also the tragedy and triumph of their predatory lifestyle... His descriptions are as precise as they are inventive' Observer `Lockhart is stepping towards the distinguished company of the great modern literary books on birds of prey... The writing, at times, is as good as anything we have on the subject to date' Country Life `His understanding of raptor ethology shines' Nature `Any bird of prey fan will find it irresistible ... thoroughly recommended' BirdGuides `Nothing prepared me for the sustained brilliance and intensity of this book ... Warm, intimate, full of wonder and delight in the ways the birds revealed themselves' Caught by the River
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- PublisherFourth Estate
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 0007459874
- ISBN 13 9780007459872
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages304
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RAPTOR: A JOURNEY THROUGH BIRDS. By James Macdonald Lockhart.
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Book Description Condition: new. (Hardcover, 2016). (2016) ND recent reprint. 8vo (142 x 222mm). Ppviii,376. B/w vignette illustrations. Black cloth with gilt raptor motifs to spine. Fine new copy in dust-wrapper. "Fifteen birds of prey, fifteen different landscapes. A journey in search of raptors, a journey through the birds and into their worlds. Beginning in the far north, in Orkney, and winding my way down to a river in Devon. A long journey south, clambering down this tall, spiny island, which is as vast and wondrous to me as any galaxy." (The author). "James Macdonald Lockhart's eyes quiver for birds of prey. For the sea eagle with its imposing eight-foot wingspan and the hen harrier swimming over the land in the dregs of a May gale on Orkney. For the peregrine with its third eyelid to protect its sight when diving on prey at 200mph and the ghostly sparrowhawk displaying in the fields around his home in Warwickshire. A childhood spent surrounded by black and white images of birds his great grandfather - an early pioneer of bird photography - had taken at the beginning of the last century and a holiday on the Isle of Lewis as a young boy set this book in motion many years ago. Exploring both the birds' biology and history, Raptor also unravels their often complicated relationship with man. A magnificent hymn to these beautiful animals, a portrait of a lifelong passion and an account of how raptors and their landscapes have possessed the author, Raptor is a book that will change how we think of our skies." "James MacDonald Lockhart puts the rapture back in the raptor. This is in-the-moment writing, raw in beak and claw. With its gorgeously felt sense of life and place, Raptor rips at its words, turning them into exquisite portraits of the utter wild, shaping, soaring, obsessive beauty out of the British landscape and its imperial birds. A true heir to J. A. Baker's The Peregrine, and T. H. White's The Goshawk, this is a unique and wonderful work." (Philip Hoare). PREVIOUS PRICE £16.99. Seller Inventory # 45701
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