The best compliment I’ve received as a writer: “Suffused with the tang of sagebrush and the hush of snowy east coast woods, it reads like some wondrous hybrid of Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff and Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac.”
Helen Macdonald
The best compliment I’ve received as a writer: “Suffused with the tang of sagebrush and the hush of snowy east coast woods, it reads like some wondrous hybrid of Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff and Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac.”
Helen Macdonald
Hello Stephen,
I’m currently trying to write a uni essay on the history of Mongolian eagle hunting. I’ve read your book ‘Eagle Dreams’ and thought you could point me in the right direction. I’ve also read Marco Polo and all his crazy images of the hunts of Kublai, Thomas Allsen’s ‘The Royal Hunt’ was informative too, but is there anywhere else I should be looking? In your book you mention the eagler Sailanhan and his tale of ‘Chor, the first Kazakh eagler’, is that purely myth? I’m fascinated to know who, how and why did humans begin using eagles and other birds for hunting, its just crazy stuff!
All the best and thankyou,
Dylan