Literary Cocktail Hour with Jonathan Slaght

The Brattleboro Literary Festival hostws this conversation with American researcher and conservationist Jonathan Slaght, on Friday, March 12, at 5:00 pm, for a discussion of his book Owls of the Eastern Ice, which was long-listed for the National Book award in 2020.

The book documents his quest to find and save the world’s largest owl, the Blakiston’s fish owl, which is almost 2 feet tall and has a wingspan of 6 feet. Slaght takes us to the Eastern Russia, where we join his small team for late-night monitoring missions, mad dashes across thawing rivers, drink vodka with mystics, hermits, and scientists, and listen to fireside tales of Amur tigers. J

Jonathan was in conversation with Charlie Rattigan, an award-winning documentary producer and the executive director of the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, known for their birds of prey rehabilitation.