The Eagle
The Golden Eagle. By Robert Murphy. Cassell. 157 pp.
This is a brilliant nature story by the author of “The Pond”—which won the 1964 Dutton Animal Book Award. This is the story of the birth and life and death of Kira, a magnificent golden eagle. Very early in her life, when her brother was captured from the nest, she learnt to fear man. Her father was killed by a hunter; a man killed the fine young tiercel with whom she might have mated; there was the old miner, who saw in her magnificent strength and beauty the youth he had lost who attempted to imprison and tame her and who barely escaped with his life; and finally, there was the farmer at whose hands she met her death. This book written with a wealth of detail and with splendid descriptions of the vast mountains and plains of Colorado, and embellished by John Shoeuberr*s fine illustrations, deserves a place high on the buyer’s list.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31209, 5 November 1966, Page 4
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