The Seabird's Cry
The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers
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ISBN
9781250181596
Bindwijze
Paperback
Taal
Engels
Auteur
Uitgeverij
Picador USA
Jaar van uitgifte
2019
Aantal pagina's
416
Waar gaat het over?
Enter ancient lands of wind and waves where the planets 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 Seabirds 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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