Looking for the Goshawk, by Conor Mark Jameson
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Looking for the Goshawk, by Conor Mark Jameson
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The book traces Conor Jameson's travels in search of the Goshawk, a magnificent yet rarely seen (in Britain at least) raptor. Each episode of the narrative arises from personal experience, investigation, and the unearthing ofinformation from research, exploration and conversations.The journey takes him from an encounter with a stuffed Goshawk in a glass case, through travels into supposed Goshawk territories in Britain, to Berlin - where he finds the bird at ease in the city. Why, he wants to know, is the bird so rarely seen in Britain? He explores the politics of birdwatching, the sport of falconry and the impact of persecution on the recent history of the bird in Britain and travels the length of Britain, through central Europe and the USA in search of answers to the goshawk mystery. Throughout his journey he is inspired by the writings of T H White who told of his attempts to tame a Goshawk in his much-loved book.It's a gripping tale on the trail of a most mysterious and charismatic bird.
Looking for the Goshawk, by Conor Mark Jameson - Amazon Sales Rank: #2136579 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-04-11
- Released on: 2013-04-11
- Format: Kindle eBook
Looking for the Goshawk, by Conor Mark Jameson Review I liked Conor's previous book, but I like this one even more. Whereas in Silent Spring Revisited Conor lived through the events described but seemed, to me, to be a little detached from them, this is a book where he describes what he did, and where he went, to get to grips better with a magnificent but elusive bird. He takes us to Berlin, Cornell, Bedfordshire, the Peak District and many other places on the trail of goshawks and those who admire, watch and protect this bird. We are accompanied, on parts of the journey, by TH White, William Henry Hudson, William Shakespeare and Winston Churchill, and many other famous and erudite folk, but also by a bunch of Conor's colleagues at the RSPB (where he works). I've rarely seen a goshawk. That's not an unusual experience - or lack of an experience. They are not that common, but even where they are present they show themselves with more discretion than do, say, kites or buzzards. There may be goshawks near you but you may not realise they are there. As far as this book is concerned, you don't need to have seen a goshawk to enjoy it. You don't even need to want to see a goshawk to enjoy it. Conor's cultured writing and enthusiasm for the natural world and the people, like him, who care about it, will carry you along through the chapters. -- Mark Avery It's a gripping tale on the trail of a most mysterious and charismatic bird. -- Ian Paulsen, Birdbooker Report an interesting, throught-provoking and well-written book about this mysterious raptor. The Guide A great read, especially for those of you who like the Roger Deakin/ Richard Mabey school of narrative. Peregrine, magazine of the Hawk and Owl Trust Conor Jameson's new book looks at man's role in first eliminating the Goshawk from the landscape, and then reintroducing it, and at what this says about our relationship with the natural world...The very uncertainty inherent in the search for the bird makes it a thoroughly engrossing, sometimes even tense, read, with his travels around the UK being mixed with disappointments and surprises in equal measure. ..Jameson brings the same personal slant to the subject that he used in the excellent Silent Spring Revisited, but it's mixed with plenty of hard science too...I read the book just days before flying to Berlin, so the chapter on the city, whose parks hold a thriving population of Goshawks, was a particular favourite, but it's a great book to dip into for inspiration any time your own personal Goshawk quest starts to feel like a lost cause. Matt Merritt, Editor, Birdwatch Equally stirring as his Silent Spring Revisited... a passionate detective story... descriptive, at times poetic prose. Devon Birds I like Conor's previous book, but I like this one even more. Mark Avery, from his blog Standing up for Nature This timely book is a satisfying mix of page-turning action and thoughtful speculation ... It is also a fine meditation on what its presence means to us. BBC Wildlife reviews While reading the highs and lows of searching for Goshawks I felt as though I had accompanied a friend on a mission. British Birds reviews I have read this book with immense pleasure. Perhaps it may trigger people to really observe birds, rather than tick them and put them on a list. Then what rewards! Rob Bijlsma, Netherlands The challenges that birds of prey face are laid bare, but this is an upbeat book, one to lift the heart and give hope for the future. RSPB magazine stirring...a passionate detective story. Devon Birds Jameson ended up with much more than a glimpse of the bird, he came away with a better understanding of ...Readers of Looking for the Goshawk will do the same, which is reason enough to recommend the book... Looking for the Goshawk provides an inspiration, no matter where you are, to get out and really look. -- Conor Mark James BirdersLibrary.com ...a rich body of work. ...provides a solid foundation which encourages us to look up. Times Literary Supplement This book establishes Jameson as a nature writer of the first rank. I defy anyone not to enjoy it. Scottish Birds a thoroughly engrossing, sometimes even tense, read...a great book to dip into for inspiration Bird Watching The reader is easily caught up in the author's excitement and eagerly follows his successes and sympathises with his frustrations. Ibis (International Journal of avian science)
About the Author Conor Jameson works for the RSPB and has contributed to numerous wildlife magazines including the RSPB's Birds magazine and BBC Wildlife. In 2010 he won the BBC Wildlife Nature Writer of the Year award with his article, Phantom about an encounter with a Goshawk in Berlin. His first book Silent Spring Revisited was published by Bloomsbury in spring 2012. He is currently working on a book about the collapse of the Asian vulture population and the efforts being made to save the bird.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Academic, but highly entertaining By Richard Sutton I was drawn to this book in an unusual way. I received an email message from an English, naturalist writer friend, Neil Ansell Deer Island, who told me I had been quoted in the new book about the Goshawk. Now, while I am a bit of a Nature Crazy myself, I can't really be considered a "Birder". I have also never been to the UK, but the cover image was so inviting, that I dived in.Looking for the Goshawk is certainly an academic work. The author follows the careful need for corroborative evidence in a scientific manner as he goes about trying to find the elusive Accipiter Raptor. There is a great deal of scholarly information here. He covers the same ground not just a few times, but his writing voice is so accessible and emotionally charged, it was mostly a delight to follow his complex journey. Beginning with his exposure to a stuffed, glass-cased female hawk in a curio shop, he is filled with awe, admiration and an equal share of revulsion and sadness which mirrors my own experience viewing a stuffed Passenger Pigeon in the NY Museum of Natural History shortly after my arrival in NY in 1973. His description of his feelings and his almost obsessive need to act on them is something I understood completely. I too have always felt the awe and love of predatory birds; so what becomes a true quest, as the pages of Looking for Goshawk unfold, was something I could relate to. His immediate and engaging writing style certainly carried me over any obstacles.As the book deals chiefly with English and Scottish locales, place names and cultural icons, I was often at a loss. On the other hand, we Americans tend to take our diversity of wildlife and the overwhelming recovery of our predatory bird species, largely for granted. Learning of the extinction of several species of native raptors in the UK, mostly at the hands of a very restrictive game management culture, shocked my sensibilities. The recovery of the Goshawk and other species, such as the Osprey in such a hostile environment is proof of the power of life and the effective work of a few committed people. Those bird enthusiasts, including members of the royal family, are to be commended and applauded.Towards the end, author Jameson includes a chapter of a visit to New York and Pennsylvania, which finally brought the focus of the book to bear on areas I'm intimately familiar with. In a section discussing Native American beliefs surrounding birds of prey, I found my own words gleaned from an Experts site where I've been sharing my experiences with collectors and those interested in Native American cultural issues. The chapter also connected me strongly with the author's very personal search and helped me feel the joy when he disappointment is occasionally broken by glimpses of a powerful, even aggressive bird reclaiming his birthright. The author is absolutely right, this is a discussion we all need to engage in, on both sides of the pond. How can we be sure of our own lives if we deny another living thing the right to the same? Add a star to my review if you are either a birder or live in the UK. If both, then I would suggest this is a must-read. For anyone who enjoys watching a hawk soar high above, his steady eye watching for any possible lunch, who is also able to engage in academic reading, I would recommend it.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Praise from reviewers By Dezo What they’ve said about Looking for the Goshawk:"A great read, especially for those of you who like the Roger Deakin/Richard Mabey school of narrative." Peregrine, magazine of the Hawk and Owl Trust“I like Conor’s previous book, but I like this one even more.” Mark Avery, from his blog Standing up for Nature"Equally stirring as his Silent Spring Revisited... a passionate detective story... descriptive, at times poetic prose..." Devon Birds“The very uncertainty inherent in the search for the bird makes it a thoroughly engrossing, sometimes even tense, read, with his travels around the UK being mixed with disappointments and surprises in equal measure. Jameson brings the same personal slant to the subject that he used in the excellent Silent Spring Revisited, but it’s mixed with plenty of hard science too. I read the book just days before flying to Berlin, so the chapter on the city, whose parks hold a thriving population of Goshawks, was a particular favourite, but it’s a great book to dip into for inspiration.” Matt Merritt, Editor, Birdwatch"This timely book is a satisfying mix of page-turning action and thoughtful speculation ... It is also a fine meditation on what its presence means to us." BBC Wildlife“Looking for the Goshawk is partly a personal quest, partly monographic, partly scientific and totally enjoyable.” David Lindo, The Urban Birder"While reading the highs and lows of searching for Goshawks I felt as though I had accompanied a friend on a mission." British Birds reviews"I have read this book with immense pleasure. Perhaps it may trigger people to really observe birds, rather than tick them and put them on a list. Then what rewards!" Rob Bijlsma, Raptor expert, Netherlands“The challenges that birds of prey face are laid bare, but this is an upbeat book, one to lift the heart and give hope for the future.” RSPB magazine“In this readable book, Conor Mark Jameson describes his search for his own Holy Grail, the Northern Goshawk. Readers are led gently through this bird’s extinction in Britain in the 1800s to its tentative recolonisation since the 1970s and the perils that it still faces today. His descriptions of the places he scours for the bird give readers a delightful flavour of both wild and inhabited Britain. The accounts of the species he sees and encounters in other countries in Europe and in North America are engaging, as is his desire for them to occur in his island home.“Through his observations Jameson casually manages to educate the reader on the Northern Goshawk’s behaviour, diet and character. But most important of all are the questions of what happens when a top predator such as this species is totally removed from an ecosystem, how it changes it, and what is likely to happen upon the species’ return.“Overall it is Jameson’s love of and admiration for this stunning raptor that makes this book worth reading.” Anna Koeslag, African Birdlife"A fascinating account of the author's devouring obsession with one species..." Ibis"This multi-faceted book is a tribute to a bird that is successfully making its comeback. Whilst written in the tradition of nature writing for which Britain is justly famous... it takes flight in the world of the imagination, but without the inflated 'wilderness' talk so popular these days. A real treat." Ardea“A gifted and thoughtful writer...he has a rare talent for getting to the heart of each topic with fresh insight and a warm wit.” Jonathan Elphick, author
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Is it a bird? By FictionFan The goshawk was the first raptor to become extinct in the British Isles but in the last few decades it has reappeared in very limited numbers. This book is Jameson's tale of how he set out to discover if it had returned to his own area, somewhere around Bedfordshire, I think. I say 'I think' because Jameson has a very annoying habit of not revealing locations - he hints that this is to stop people being able to track and kill the goshawk, which would be both understandable and admirable if in fact he only did it in places where the goshawk has been found. At one point, he refuses to name a village in which he found a stuffed goshawk in the back of a shop - one can't help but feel it is in very little danger of worse happening to it now...As part of his search for the elusive 'gos', he visits various places where they are in residence - Germany, Scotland, the US - and speculates as to why the bird is successful in these places but still so rare in his area. He talks about why they became extinct and why they have reappeared and much of this is interesting. He also discusses habitat, breeding patterns, hunting methods, etc., but all in passing - there's no clear structure or thrust to the book. He starts sentence after sentence with 'I wonder...' and then doesn't go on to answer the question he has asked. Many times he sees a bird, fails to identify it and then 'wonders' if it might have been a goshawk. And then he casually disputes evidence without any alternative to put in its place. For instance, when seeing a gamekeeper's records of the number of goshawks killed over a period of four years, he dismisses these with a casual disbelief that the figures could be so high, and says the gamekeeper must have mistaken other raptors for goshawks. Where's the evidence for this? It's certainly not in the book.I may have been able to live with the lack of structure and evidence had the writing been good enough to lift the book. But no. Three-word sentences. Frequently. Without verbs. Why? "This is outdoors as room. Padded. Comfortable and comforting. Mild and wild. 'Semi-natural.' Sauvage, in a second-hand way." It's not all like that but it is written in an amateurish style that I assume is meant to make us feel that this is a friend chatting to us, rather than an expert informing us. So, to be fair, some of my irritation with the book may be down to personal preference. I like factual books to make an argument and back it up with evidence; and I like the conventions of grammar and writing style to get at least a nod. But perhaps this may appeal to people who like a more relaxed, informal and unstructured style.NB This book was provided for review by the publisher.
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