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By now you know I'm a horse lover. I also worked on the track for a decade as a groom, and I worked briefly in Ireland with steeplechase horses. They are incredible athletes, but I always held my breath when they ran, because steeplechasing is rough and tumble - literally. Some of those horses fall over jumps.
The Grand National in England is the granddaddy of steeplechases, and pretty much all hell broke loose during the running of the 1967 Grand National when Foinavon won at odds of 100-1.
I'm not giving anything away by telling you who won. The great story is about how he even got to be running in the race, and how that insane race unfolded.
After you read the book, find the race on Youtube and watch it!
It was the upset to end all upsets. On 8 April 1967 at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, a 100-1 outsider in peculiar blinkers sidestepped chaos extraordinary even by the Grand National's standards and won the world's toughest steeplechase.
The jumps-racing establishment - and Gregory Peck, the Hollywood actor whose much-fancied horse was reduced to the status of an also-ran - took a dim view. But Foinavon, the dogged victor, and Susie, the white nanny goat who accompanied him everywhere, became instant celebrities. Within days, the traffic was being stopped for them in front of Buckingham Palace en route to an…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Besides horses, I love owls. I've done a lot of bird surveys, including spotted owls. I learned to track them down in the northwest forests; I've helped catch them; I've held them for banding. These birds are magical.
The Blakiston's fish owl is the largest owl in the world. It lives in China, Japan, and the Russian far east. It's also highly elusive. Author Jonathan Slaght went on a 5-year quest to find and study these fascinating, endangered owls in Eastern Russia. About the only time you can find them is winter, and you can imagine how cold it gets in Eastern Russia in winter.
This book doesn't read like a research book at all. It's more like a frozen outdoor rugged adventure with some colorful human characters thrown in, mixed with incredible, amazing encounters with a very elusive owl that most of us will never ever see.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 Longlisted for the National Book Award Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction A Finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award Winner of the Peace Corps Worldwide Special Book Award
A Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Globe and Mail, The BirdBooker Report, Geographical, Open Letter Review Best Nature Book of the Year: The Times (London)
"A terrifically exciting account of [Slaght's] time in the Russian Far East studying Blakiston’s…
