Two Owls at Eton - A True Story
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Two Owls at Eton - A True Story

  1. 300 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Two Owls at Eton - A True Story

About this book

'A CLASSIC OF WILDLIFE WRITING' – THE FIELD
Listed as one of its five best nature books - 2010 Country LifeWhen Jonathan Franklin takes two baby tawny owls back to Eton, he has no idea how chaotic the following months will be. The birds show no respect for Etonian routine and tradition. They trash his room and rule his daily life, and are known throughout the school as 'Dum' and 'Dee'
. Although a keen naturalist, Jonathan struggles to understand his charges and to find the right food for them; at first meat and feathers, soon mice and rats. Even so, they nearly die of malnutrition on two occasions. Frantic, he searches for natural food. How to keep them alive is a constant worry. He watches them grow from ugly balls of fluff into beautiful adults, every change of plumage and behaviour noted. They play truant, they shock others, and lead Jonathan into hilarious adventures. They charm his housemaster and everybody who meets them. Best of all is seeing them flying about over those famous playing fields.
All the time, Jonathan works to train them for eventual return to the wild. Will that be possible? He is never sure whether he will succeed.
Now updated by the author to tell the end of this extraordinary story, Two Owls at Eton – very British, very witty, yet always close to the rawness of the natural world – is a story to delight everyone – whether they ever trod those playing fi elds, or have never wished to set eyes on the place.

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Information

Publisher
Metro Publishing
Year
2016
Topic
Biological Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781786063151
Subtopic
Zoology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. DEDICATION
  4. CONTENTS
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FOR THE SECOND EDITION
  7. INTRODUCTION
  8. CHAPTER I: Arrival
  9. CHAPTER II: Schooldays
  10. CHAPTER III: Educating the Wise
  11. CHAPTER IV: The Fourth of June and Journey Home
  12. CHAPTER V: The Spreading of the Wings
  13. CHAPTER VI: Return to Nature
  14. CHAPTER VII: Aftermath: Dee Dee
  15. EPILOGUE
  16. PLATES
  17. COPYRIGHT

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