The Seabird's Cry
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (955 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250134188 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Of the ten birds in this book, seven are in decline, at least in part of their range. 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. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land."A global tragedy is unfolding. 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.. Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. 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
Heinemann Award, and the British Topography prize. He has written and presented many television series and lives on a farm in Sussex. . Adam Nicolson is a prize-winning writer of many books on history and nature, including Sea Room, NYT bestselling God's Secretaries, and the acclaimed Why Homer Matters. H. He is winner of the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the W
Heinemann Award, and the British Topography prize. He has written and presented many television series and lives on a farm in Sussex. H. . He is winner of the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the W. About the AuthorAdam Nicolson is a prize-winning writer of many books on history and nature, including Sea Room, NYT bestselling God's Secretaries, and the acclaimed Why Homer Matters