BOOK REVIEW: Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl

Abstract

 It was on a flight over the Primorye, a Russian province formerly part of Manchuria, abutting North Korea and China, that Jonathan Slaght recalls falling in love with the Russian Far East, and particularly Primorye. Straddling the Sea of Japan  it is a mysterious mountainous Russian province that during the Soviet era was off limits to foreigners for military reasons, and the exotic wild home of the Amur Tiger and Amur Leopard.