THE SEABIRDS'S CRY: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers {W2

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Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
1250134188
ISBN-13
9781250134189
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237528800

Product Key Features

Book Title
Seabird's Cry : the Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Ecology, Animals / Birds
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science
Author
Adam Nicolson
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6.2 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-031320
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"A moving exploration . . . Demonstrates that wonder about the natural world can be deepened by increasing one's knowledge of it and that emotional wisdom can be reinforced by the acquisition of practical information. He blends insightful ethological observations with elements of the mythical and peppers his delivery of practical, premodern knowledge with poetic imagery . . . whimsical . . . appeals to both the mind and the heart . . . Nicolson combines a huge amount of scientific information with deeply emotional content and the net effect is moving and quietly profound." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) " The Seabird's Cry . . . is full of wonder and guilt, life and death; it is a threnody sounding from cliff to cliff . . . dizzyingly, dazzlingly good." -- The Herald Scotland "This isn't just about 'seabirds.' It's about the living poetry of winged beings who share our planet as though inhabiting another world." --Carl Safina, author of Song for the Blue Ocean and Beyond Words . "This marvellous book inhabits with graceful ease both the mythic and the scientific, and remains alert to the vulnerability of these birds as well as to their wonder. It is a work that takes wing in the mind." --Robert Macfarlane, award-winning author of Landmarks , The Wild Places , and Mountains of the Mind " The Seabird's Cry is a magnificent book and takes its place all at once among the greatest of modern bird books; page after page of extraordinary power, amazing mastery of the science, scintillating and muscled retelling of countless maps and graphs, Nicolson has got the truth better even than those who dug it up; an imaginative reach and original inhabiting of what he has seen, the birds themselves; so enamoured of life it makes you cry; so big with the bigness it finds; and quite wonderful; no one else is doing this or has; it is utterly brilliant." --Tim Dee, author of The Running Sky and Poetry for Birds, Praise for Adam Nicolson: "Highly accessible...Nicolson's amateurism (in the best, etymological, sense of the word: from the Latin amare , "to love") and globe-trotting passion for his subject is contagious...bringing the heroic age into our own." - New York Times Book Review "Complex, personal and profound...a brash and brave piece of writing... [Nicolson's] book, filled with the swords and spears that inflict the carnage of the 'Iliad,' can change the way we see ours." - Wall Street Journal "Stirring... Nicolson eloquently sums up what we still look for in Homer: 'wisdom, his fearless encounter with the dreadful, his love of love and hatred of death, the sheer scale of his embrace, his energy and brightness, his resistance to nostalgia.'" - Washington Post "Adam Nicolson writes popular books the way popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite, elegantly written, passionately felt. . . .and his excitement is contagious." -James Wood, The New Yorker
Dewey Decimal
598.177
Table Of Content
Maps Introduction 1. Fulmar 2. Puffin 3. Kittiwake 4. Gull 5. Guillemot 6. Cormorant and Shag 7. Shearwater 8. Gannet 9. Great Auk and its Cousin Razorbill 10. Albatross 11. The Seabird's Cry Notes Index
Synopsis
Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land." A global tragedy is unfolding. Even as we are coming to understand them, the number of seabirds on our planet is in freefall, dropping by nearly 70% in the last sixty years, a billion fewer now than there were in 1950. Of the ten birds in this book, seven are in decline, at least in part of their range. Extinction stalks the ocean and there is a danger that the grand cry of the seabird colony, rolling around the bays and headlands of high latitudes, will this century become little but a memory. Seabirds have always entranced the human imagination and NYT best-selling author Adam Nicolson has been in love with them all his life: for their mastery of wind and ocean, their aerial beauty and the unmatched wildness of the coasts and islands where every summer they return to breed. The seabird's cry comes from an elemental layer in the story of the world. Over the last couple of decades, modern science has begun to understand their epic voyages, their astonishing abilities to navigate for tens of thousands of miles on featureless seas, their ability to smell their way towards fish and home. Only the poets in the past would have thought of seabirds as creatures riding the ripples and currents of the entire planet, but that is what the scientists are seeing now today.
LC Classification Number
QL678.52.N53 2018

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