An Eternity of Eagles
The Human History of the Most Fascinating Bird in the World
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An Eternity of Eagles
The Human History of the Most Fascinating Bird in the World
A compulsively readable natural and social history, An Eternity of Eagles is a profusely illustrated celebration of all things eagle, by a naturalist who has kept eagles himself and ridden with the eagle tribes of Central Asia.
"His vivid description of an eagle, if it could imagine itself, is of a 'carnivorous Buddhist.' Through Bodio's insights we get a strange glimpse of these other minds that share the earth with us."
--Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain
From one of the foremost author/naturalists in the country, Stephen J. Bodio, comes a compulsively readable natural and social history of the most beautiful bird in the world -- the eagle, with a lengthy and admiring introduction by Annie Proulx.
The Eagle's Shadow traces our love-hate relationship to these "living dinosaurs," from Neolithic rock art and Native American religion through the practices of Kazakh falconers who use them to hunt wolves, and to contemporary art and popular culture.
Proulx sums up best the heart of this book: "Those of us who are interested in bird behavior beyond the feeder or the identification guide book find meager pickings when it comes to information. I am fortunate that my house faces a cliff with a river at the base where I can watch raptors, water fowl, and a hundred other species. The nests of a pair of bald eagles and another upriver inhabited by golden eagles are in sight from the breakfast table. I have plenty of books on birds, but the information on why the big eagles do what they do is hard to dig out. Eagle behavior is usually lumped together with the general behavior of the Accipitrids, but a single book focused on the rich lore and sweep of eagledom did not seem to exist... . Bodio's beautifully written and authoritative book, Eagles, is a primary source of information as well as an omnium gatherum from literature, film and mythology concerning these large, striking birds."
Stephen Bodio was born and educated in Boston and has lived in a rural New Mexico village for over thirty years. He has traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, and Asia and has written five books.
About this Author
Stephen Bodio has written five books. He was on the masthead of such publications as English Literary Renaissance and Gray's Sporting Journal, and his work has appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, the LA Times Magazine, and literary quarterlies. An excerpt of his book Eagle Dreams, about riding with the Kazakh horsemen of Mongolia, was published in The Atlantic and included in Frances Mayes's anthology The Best American Travel Writing 2002.
Reviews
--Jonathan Rosen, author of The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
--Tony Angell, artist, naturalist, and author
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