![]() ![]() Along the way, Slaght naturally becomes fluent in Russian and attuned to the rhythms of a frontier culture that rarely shows up in the news. The force of his attraction can be measured by his return to Primorye as an undergraduate, his volunteering to serve there for three years in the Peace Corps, followed by numerous return visits as a University of Minnesota graduate student and conservation biologist. Accompanying his father to Russia’s far east when he was nineteen, Slaght fell deeply in love with Primorye, a vast, forested region that borders North Korea and the Sea of Japan. No one is better equipped to tell this story in English than Jonathan Slaght. ![]() ![]() Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl Yet the author’s modern story chronicles the efforts to save a non-human species - the elusive Blakiston’s fish owl - from extinction. This tale of a young American traveling in eastern Russia resembles “Call of the Wild” in its sensitivity to the powerful forces of nature, and its passion for human survival. Rather, it is a book that explores the mind and heart of the wilderness that could have come from the pen of Jack London, had the author lived a century later and been a volunteer. This haunting memoir by a former Peace Corps volunteer is not about his Peace Corps experience. ![]()
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