Raptors

by James Macdonald Lockhart

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  Acknowledgements

  I am grateful to The Royal Society of Literature and The Jerwood Charitable Foundation for an RSL Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction in 2011, and to The Society of Authors for an Authors’ Foundation Roger Deakin Award in 2011.

  Thank you to my agent Jessica Woollard at The Marsh Agency; Nicholas Pearson, my editor at Fourth Estate, and Kate Tolley at Fourth Estate; Andrew McNeillie for his support and encouragement and for publishing work in progress from this book in Archipelago magazine; Robert Macfarlane and Robin Harvie for their encouragement; Antony Harwood for his patient support.

  Thank you also to Sophie Wilcox at the Alexander Library of Ornithology in Oxford; Jim McGregor at the University of Aberdeen Herbarium; the staff at the Special Collections Library, University of Aberdeen; the staff at the Natural History Museum Library, London; Alyson Tyler at CyMAL Museums Archives and Libraries Wales; George Deane in Bolton; Bob Image and Jim Scott in East Anglia; Eric Meek on Orkney; David Pearce in Gloucestershire; Norrie Russell in Sutherland.

  Above all, my thanks to Nicki.

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