Eternity of Eagles

Stephen Bodio was born and educated in Boston. He has lived in a remote rural village in New Mexico for over thirty years, and has traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, and especially Asia.He has written five books, and has been an editor, writer , and anthologist of many more books and magazines. He was on the masthead of publications as different as English Literary Renaissance and Gray's Sporting Journal, where he also wrote a book review column for twelve years. He reviewed everything from novels to natural history in publications as various as Bloomsbury Review, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the London Times Literary Supplement. His articles, essays, and stories have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, the LA Times Magazine, and many more magazines, as well as in literary quarterlies. For nine years he was the first resident faculty member at Sterling College's Wildbranch Writers Workshop in Vermont, recruited by Annie Proulx. His previous book, Eagle Dreams, was about his adventures riding with the Kazakh horsemen of Mongolia. An except, published in The Atlantic, was included in Frances Mayes' anthology The Best American Travel Writing 2002.Bodio has hunted with falcons for almost fifty years and has bred and trained salukis and their Asian relatives for thirty. He recently completed a book on the natural and cultural history of eagles, and assisted retired Russian scientist and dog expert Vladimir Beregovoy with his translation of a 19th Century Siberian hunter's tales. He is now working on a "book of books" about the best sporting literature of all time. A memoir, a book about the ancient dogs of Central Asia, and a collaboration with his photographer stepson on western travelers in the Szechuan- Tibetan border country, are all in the pipeline. He still lives in Magdalena with his wife, Elizabeth (Libby) Adam Frishman, a second- generation mountaineer, archaeologist, and former Outward Bound trekking guide.

Introduction by Annie ProulxPrologueChapter 1: Natural HistoryChapter 2: Eagles of the Mind (Eagles in Religion, Mythology, Art, and Symbolism)Chapter 3: Eagles as Allies (Falconry)Chapter 4: Eagles as EnemiesChapter 5: The Future of Eagles