The Seabird's Cry - Nicolson, Adam
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Enter ancient lands of wind and waves where the planet's greatest flyers battle for survival. As the only creatures at home on land, at sea, and in the air, seabirds have evolved to thrive in the most demanding environment on Earth. In The Seabird's Cry, Adam Nicolson travels ocean paths, fusing traditional knowledge with astonishing facts science has recently learned about these creatures: the way their bodies actually work, their dazzling navigational skills, their ability to smell their way to fish or home and to understand the discipline of the winds upon which they depend. This book is a…mehr

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Enter ancient lands of wind and waves where the planet's greatest flyers battle for survival. As the only creatures at home on land, at sea, and in the air, seabirds have evolved to thrive in the most demanding environment on Earth. In The Seabird's Cry, Adam Nicolson travels ocean paths, fusing traditional knowledge with astonishing facts science has recently learned about these creatures: the way their bodies actually work, their dazzling navigational skills, their ability to smell their way to fish or home and to understand the discipline of the winds upon which they depend. 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 numbers are in freefall, dropping by nearly 70 percent in the last sixty years, a billion fewer now than in 1950. Extinction stalks the ocean, and there is a danger that the hundred-million-year-old cries of a seabird colony, rolling around in the bays and headlands of high latitudes, will this century become but a memory.
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Adam Nicolson
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'An exquisitely written paean to ten ocean-going birds ... make no mistake, this is a clever book ... a call to arms against the loss of this crucial part of our rich natural heritage', Books of the Year, The Times

'An extraordinary book, nothing less than a masterpiece' Financial Times

'Gorgeous book, a poetic soaring exploration of 10 species of seabirds...Generous and beautifully composed' Observer

'No one has previously captured the essence of seabirds, of their habitats or their lives, with such poignancy or perception as Adam Nicolson in this fine book...[He] takes us on an extraordinary, constantly changing journey through the history, literature and biology of their lives...[His] exuberance for seabirds is infectious...inspirational' BBC Wildlife

'Nicolson writes with a heart full of poetry and a head full of science. He is up to speed with recent seabird research and tells the tales with relish' Mail on Sunday

'Full of fascinating and often gruesome details...[he] succeeds in expressing his sense of awe at these magnificent creatures' Sunday Times

'Though seabirds have ridden the surf and skies for 100 million years we are now casually wiping them out...Nicolson has accorded them this book. Its excellence constitutes some small recompense' Evening Standard

'It isn't sufficient to say that Nicolson writes well about birds. He is dizzyingly, dazzlingly good' Sunday Herald

'Beautiful and engrossing book...written with verve and weathered with wonder...there is no one I'd rather read writing about these creatures...the bigness of our author's excitements and passions is...abundant in this clear-sighted yet loving book and it is magnificent to have' Country Life

'Breathtaking...[Nicolson] has an intuitive understanding of the birds that feels almost uncanny...presents...research in a way that is not just comprehensible but compelling, even moving...His swithering between the forensic and the poetic creates a sense of wonder' Spectator

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