
The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird SIGNED FIRST EDITION
by Davis, Jack E
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good +/Very good +
- ISBN 10
- 1631495259
- ISBN 13
- 9781631495250
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Carrollton, Georgia
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New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink at front free endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 417pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
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.(Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
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.(Publisher).
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10435
- Title
- The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird SIGNED FIRST EDITION
- Author
- Davis, Jack E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very good +
- Jacket condition
- Very good +
- Quantity-available
- 3
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1631495259
- ISBN 13
- 9781631495250
- Publisher
- Liveright Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2022
- Keywords
- BIBLIO-LIVE-3
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