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Title details for The Bald Eagle by Jack E. Davis - Available

The Bald Eagle

The Improbable Journey of America's Bird

by Jack E. Davis
Dan John Miller
Audiobook (Includes supplementary content)
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America.
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 nation’s 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 of Founding Fathers, rapacious hunters, heroic bird rescuers, and the lives of bald eagles themselves—monogamous creatures, considered among the animal world’s finest parents—The Bald Eagle is a much-awaited cultural and natural history that demonstrates how this bird’s wondrous journey may provide inspiration today, as we grapple with environmental peril on a larger scale.
*Includes a downloadable PDF of images from the book

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  • Release date

    March 1, 2022

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593615126
      • File size: 433307 KB
      • Duration: 15:02:43

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      No symbol is more closely linked to the United States than the bald eagle, this audiobook points out. Yet this magnificent creature is neither the official national symbol nor even the official American bird. This fact is among the interesting bits of information presented in this mythological and biological examination of the bald eagle. Dan John Miller offers an able narration. His even tone exactly matches the author's straightforward style. In the instances when the author uses highly complex sentence structure, Miller breaks it down for listeners without losing the overall point or sense of the sentence. There are few direct quotations, so simple pauses are enough to mark where quotes begin and end. R.C.G. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

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