The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet’s Great Ocean Voyagers
by Adam Nicolson
From Henry Holt and Co.:
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.
The Seabird’s Cry seeks to provide an understanding and appreciation of seabirds by focusing on ten different species (more like groups) that we normally think of as “seabirds”, such as albatross, shearwaters, puffins, and gulls. This book and the also recently published Far from Land look like excellent complements to each other, to the joy of seabird fans everywhere.
The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet’s Great Ocean Voyagers
by Adam Nicolson
Hardcover; 416 pages
Henry Holt and Co.; February 6, 2018
ISBN: 9781250134189
$32.00
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Posted by Grant McCreary on March 27th, 2018.
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