When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. No scientist had seen a Blakiston's fish owl so far south in a hundred years. Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk, in Kirkus I saw my first Blakiston's fish owl in the Russian province of Primorye, a coastal talon of land hooking south into the belly of Northeast Asia. Even on the hottest summer days this book will transport you." Winner of the Peace Corps Worldwide Special Book AwardĪ Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Globe and Mail, The BirdBooker Report, Geographical, Open Letter Reviewīest Nature Book of the Year: The Times (London) "A terrifically exciting account of time in the Russian Far East studying Blakiston's fish owls, huge, shaggy-feathered, yellow-eyed, and elusive birds that hunt fish by wading in icy water. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General NonfictionĪ Finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award About the Book "A young field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia.".
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