The Eagle Huntress: The True Story of the Girl Who Soared Beyond Expectation by Aisholpan Nurgaiv with Liz Welch. 208 p. Little Brown Books for Young Readers, May, 2020. 9780316522619. (Review of finished copy borrowed from public library.)
Fact Friday features The Eagle Huntress: The True Story of the Girl Who Soared Beyond Expectation by Aisholpan Nurgaiv with Liz Welch.
In 2014, Aisholpan Nurgaiv became the first girl to win a competition of eagle hunters in Mongolia. Eagle hunting is traditionally done by men, but Aisholpan's father thought she was a natural and encouraged her interest. Her quest to compete was the subject of a documentary, released in 2016, also called The Eagle Huntress.
Her memoir is conversational. She speaks of stories of her birth and the dream her grandmother had just prior to it. She talks of how her father trained her to handle his eagle and how she set about trapping and capturing her own eaglet. She also shares how it felt to travel to the US for the premier of the award-winning documentary featuring her. Plentiful photographs give readers a visual sense of the Steppe where her nomadic family have lived for generations.
The Eagle Huntress is engaging and accessible to young readers - a great addition to your library's memoir collection.
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