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A New York Times Notable Book of 2020
Longlisted for the National Book Award
Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction
A Finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award
Winner of the Peace Corps Worldwide Special Book Award

A Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Globe and Mail, The BirdBooker Report, Geographical, Open Letter Review
Best Nature Book of the Year: The Times (London)

A terrifically exciting account of [Slaght''s] 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 . . . Even on the hottest summer days this book will transport you.
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Owls of the Eastern Ice

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    A Paperback / softback by Jonathan C Slaght

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      Publisher: Picador USA
      Publication Date: 01/06/2021
      ISBN13: 9781250798718, 978-1250798718
      ISBN10: 125079871X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A New York Times Notable Book of 2020
      Longlisted for the National Book Award
      Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction
      A Finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award
      Winner of the Peace Corps Worldwide Special Book Award

      A Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Globe and Mail, The BirdBooker Report, Geographical, Open Letter Review
      Best Nature Book of the Year: The Times (London)

      A terrifically exciting account of [Slaght''s] 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 . . . Even on the hottest summer days this book will transport you.
      Helen Macdonald, author of

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