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The Seabird's Cry - The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers (Hardcover)
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The Seabird's Cry - The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers (Hardcover)
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WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE JEFFERIES AWARD
FOR NATURE WRITING 2017 The full story of seabirds from one of the
greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their
lives, their habitats, the threats they face and the passions they
inspire - beautifully illustrated by Kate Boxer. In ten chapters,
each dedicated to a different bird, and each beautifully
illustrated by Kate Boxer, The Seabird's Cry travels their ocean
paths, fusing traditional knowledge with all that modern science
has come to know about them: the way their bodies work, their
dazzling navigational expertise, their ability to smell their way
to fish or home, to understand the workings of the winds in which
they live. At the heart of the book are the Shiant Isles - a
cluster of Hebridean islands in the Minch that Adam Nicolson has
known all his life - but he has pursued the birds much further:
across the Atlantic, up the west coast of Ireland, to St Kilda,
Orkney, Shetland, the Faeroes, Iceland and Norway to the eastern
seaboard of America, the Falklands, South Georgia, the Canaries and
the Azores - reaching out across the widths of the world ocean.
This book is a paean to the beauty of life on the wing, but even as
we are coming to understand the seabirds, a global tragedy is
unfolding. Their number is in freefall, dropping by nearly seventy
per cent in the last sixty years, a billion fewer now than in 1950.
Of the ten birds in this book, seven are in decline. Extinction
stalks the ocean and there is a danger that the grand cry of a
seabird colony, rolling around the bays and headlands of high
latitudes, will this century become but a memory.
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