Gestern habe ich in der Badner-Bahn den zweiten Teil der Winternight-Trilogie ausgelesen. Er hat mir gut gefallen, den ersten Band fand ich aber besser. Trotzdem ein tolles Buch und ich freue mich auf den dritten Teil.
Und weil wir uns gestern so viel über unsere Familien-Lieblings-Vögel unterhalten haben, habe ich mir heute auch gleich was passendes zum Lesen ausgesucht.
Meine Wochenend-Lektüre:
Boria SAX
City of Ravens
City of Ravens
London, the Tower and its Famous Birds
Description:The tales tell that Charles the Second feared Britain will fall if the ravens ever left the Tower of London. Yet the truth is that they arrived in Victorian times as props in gory tales for tourists. The legend began in 1944 when a raven spotted bombers over London. But the ravens' past has far more high drama. From the plains of the North American Indians to the Arctic tundra, all the way to the Tower of London, they have been symbols of cruelty, of survival through adversity, and a loveable icon. Boria Sax shows how our attitudes to the raven and to the natural world in general have changed enormously over the centuries. By describing the distinct place of this special bird in Anglo-Saxon culture, he shows how blurred the lines between myth and history can be. This is a unique and brilliantly readable story of the entwined lives of people and animals.
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