On Friday, March 12, at 5:00 pm, American researcher and conservationist Jonathan Slaght will join the Brattleboro Literary Festival to talk about his book ‘Owls of the Eastern Ice, a Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl’- the Blakiston’s fish owl, which is almost 2 feet tall and has a wingspan of 6’.  Long-listed for the National Book award, Slaght takes us to Eastern Russia, where we join his small team for late-night monitoring missions, mad dashes across thawing rivers, drink vodka with mystics, hermits, and scientists, and listen to fireside tales of Amur tigers. Jonathan will be in conversation with Charlie Rattigan, an award-winning documentary producer and the executive director of the Vermont Institute of Natural Science, known for their birds of prey rehabilitation.