The Ravenmaster : my life with the ravens at the Tower of London
(2018)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/SKAIFE,C

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir MEMOIR/SKAIFE,C Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

viii, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780374113346, 0374113343
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Maps on end caps

Silhouette -- Ravenmaster -- The rules -- Roll call -- Bird life -- Tower Green -- Biscuits and blood -- The menagerie -- Black birds -- The raven spreads his wings -- The great escape -- Resistance to interrogation -- Citizens of the world -- Double hatting -- The story -- Application -- Speaking in Ravenish -- Bird brains -- Ravenology -- The legend of the ravens at the Tower -- Blood swept lands and seas of red -- My mistress' eyes are raven black -- Birds and books -- Death and the raven -- The ghosts of my life -- And so to bed -- Great traditions -- Sentinels of the White Tor -- Rising above

"A narrative by the Tower of London's official Ravenmaster about what it's like to live among the ravens at England's most famous national monument, woven together with insight from folklore, history, and contemporary behavioral science about this unusual bird"--

Includes bibliographic references