Two Owls at Eton - A True Story

Two Owls at Eton - A True Story

EnglishHardback
Franklin Jonathan
John Blake Publishing Ltd
EAN: 9781786060303
Available at distributor
Delivery on Monday, 5. of May 2025
€11.40
Common price €12.66
Discount 10%
pc
Do you want this product today?
Oxford Bookshop Banská Bystrica
not available
Oxford Bookshop Bratislava
not available
Oxford Bookshop Košice
not available

Detailed information

When Jonathan Franklin takes two baby tawny owls back to Eton, he has no idea how chaotic the following months will be. The birds show no respect for Etonian routine and tradition. They trash his room and rule his daily life, and are known throughout the school as 'Dum' and 'Dee'. Although a keen naturalist, Jonathan struggles to understand his charges and to find the right food for them; at first meat and feathers, soon mice and rats. Even so, they nearly die of malnutrition on two occasions. Frantic, he searches for natural food. How to keep them alive is a constant worry. He watches them grow from ugly balls of fluff into beautiful adults, every change of plumage and behaviour noted. They play truant, they shock others, and lead Jonathan into hilarious adventures. They charm his housemaster and everybody who meets them. Best of all is seeing them flying about over those famous playing fields. All the time, Jonathan works to train them for eventual return to the wild. Will that be possible? He is never sure whether he will succeed.Now updated by the author to tell the end of this extraordinary story, Two Owls at Eton - very British, very witty, yet always close to the rawness of the natural world - is a story to delight everyone - whether they ever trod those playing fields, or have never wished to set eyes on the place.
EAN 9781786060303
ISBN 1786060302
Binding Hardback
Publisher John Blake Publishing Ltd
Publication date September 22, 2016
Pages 224
Language English
Dimensions 216 x 135 x 11
Country United Kingdom
Authors Franklin Jonathan
Manufacturer information
The manufacturer's contact information is currently not available online, we are working intensively on the axle. If you need information, write us on helpdesk@megabooks.sk, we will be happy to provide it.