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I saw my first Blakiston’s fish owl in the Russian province of Primorye, a coastal talon of land hooking south into the belly of Northeast Asia . . . No scientist had seen a Blakiston’s fish owl so far south in a hundred years . . . More about this book >
Jonathan C. Slaght, a scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, is an author of creative nonfiction. His Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China was named one of 2025’s best books by the Minnesota Star Tribune, BookPage, and CounterPunch. His debut book Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl was Longlisted for a National Book Award for Nonfiction, and won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction. He lives in Minneapolis.
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