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On the Trail of Fish Owls: An Interview with Jonathan C. Slaght

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Photo: Terria Clay/WCS Jonathan C. Slaght is an American wildlife biologist and author. He is one of the leading experts on Blakiston’s fish owls. His book, Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl (2020), won several awards, including the 2021 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, the …

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Driving Over Lemons—An Optimist in Andalucía: Chris Stewart

On By suroor alikhanIn Autobiography / Biography / Memoir, Humour, Non-Fiction, Travel1 Comment

Published by Sort Of Books, 1999, 247 pages. In 1988, Chris Stewart and his wife Ana bought an old, remote farm in Las Alpujarras in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Andalucía. This is the first book in his trilogy about living on their farm, El Valero. Chris, a former Genesis drummer, doesn’t pretend that living …

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