Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers by Adam

Description: Seabird's Cry by Adam Nicolson 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography A New York Times bestselling author, Adam Nicolson has won many major awards including the Somerset Maugham Award, the W. H. Heinemann Award, and the Ondaatje Prize. His books include Why Homer Matters and The Seabirds Cry. Mr. Nicolson lives in England with his wife and grown children. Table of Contents 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 Seabirds Cry Notes Index Review "Threading together science and poetry with a sense of wonder, Adam Nicolsons The Seabirds Cry reminds us that these birds are always there at the edge of our existence: at once familiar and utterly mysterious . . . The elegance of the writing, and the very human curiosity and compassion for the seabirds themselves, is enthralling . . . A sustained and powerful cry for a greater understanding and empathy of their unique environments." --The Wall Street Journal "Wondrous and lyrical, this book swoops and dives into the art and science of natural history with as much grace as the seabirds it examines."--The Boston Globe (a Best Book of 2018) "Beautifully written, haunting in imagery and filled with marvels, the book is also a farewell salute to a once teeming dimension of the natural world, now increasingly devastated by human environmental malfeasance."--Star Tribune (Critics Choice, Top 10 of 2018) "Breathtaking . . . Nicolsons mind is well stocked and acrobatic, and capable of vivid connections . . . He has an intuitive understanding of the birds that feels almost uncanny . . . His gift is to present this research in a way that is not just comprehensible but compelling, even moving, and to intercut it with dazzling description . . . His swithering between the forensic and the poetic creates a sense of wonder." --The Spectator "With scientific rigor and a poets sense of wonder, Nicolson uncovers the lives of puffins and kittiwakes, fulmars and gulls, all the while investigating the impact of climate change on these seabirds." --The American Scholar "Bounteous . . . An Aladdins cave of enlightenment." --London Evening Standard "Captivating . . . A celebration of these strange and marvelous beings and the forbidding places they call home." --The Christian Science Monitor "A beautiful exploration . . . Gorgeous . . . Expansive, generous and beautifully composed." --The Guardian "Intimate and engrossing . . . A buoyant celebration of seabirds that serves as an important reminder of natures fragility." --Kirkus Reviews "An extraordinary hymn to threatened seabirds that breaks down the barriers separating science and poetry . . . Evocative . . . Luminous . . . Nicolson spools outwards from the Shiants, building in the readers mind a richly interconnected world of birds on their cliffs and crags, or gliding over endless oceans, all of it described in the most lustrous, lucid prose. I filled the back of the book with quotes I copied down, little sparks of recognition and delight." --Financial Times "A moving exploration . . . Demonstrates that wonder about the natural world can be deepened by increasing ones 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 Seabirds 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 isnt just about seabirds. Its 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 Seabirds 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 Review Quote "Threading together science and poetry with a sense of wonder, Adam Nicolsons The Seabirds Cry reminds us that these birds are always there at the edge of our existence: at once familiar and utterly mysterious . . . The elegance of the writing, and the very human curiosity and compassion for the seabirds themselves, is enthralling . . . A sustained and powerful cry for a greater understanding and empathy of their unique environments." -- The Wall Street Journal "Wondrous. . . Beautifully written, haunting in imagery and filled with marvels, the book is also a farewell salute to a once teeming dimension of the natural world, now increasingly devastated by human environmental malfeasance."-- Star Tribune (Critics Choice, Top 10 of the year) "Breathtaking . . . Nicolsons mind is well stocked and acrobatic, and capable of vivid connections . . . He has an intuitive understanding of the birds that feels almost uncanny . . . His gift is to present this research in a way that is not just comprehensible but compelling, even moving, and to intercut it with dazzling description . . . His swithering between the forensic and the poetic creates a sense of wonder." -- The Spectator "With scientific rigor and a poets sense of wonder, Nicolson uncovers the lives of puffins and kittiwakes, fulmars and gulls, all the while investigating the impact of climate change on these seabirds." -- The American Scholar "Bounteous . . . An Aladdins cave of enlightenment." -- London Evening Standard "Captivating . . . A celebration of these strange and marvelous beings and the forbidding places they call home." -- The Christian Science Monitor "A beautiful exploration . . . Gorgeous . . . Expansive, generous and beautifully composed." -- The Guardian "Intimate and engrossing . . . A buoyant celebration of seabirds that serves as an important reminder of natures fragility." -- Kirkus Reviews "An extraordinary hymn to threatened seabirds that breaks down the barriers separating science and poetry . . . Evocative . . . Luminous . . . Nicolson spools outwards from the Shiants, building in the readers mind a richly interconnected world of birds on their cliffs and crags, or gliding over endless oceans, all of it described in the most lustrous, lucid prose. I filled the back of the book with quotes I copied down, little sparks of recognition and delight." -- Financial Times "A moving exploration . . . Demonstrates that wonder about the natural world can be deepened by increasing ones 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 Seabirds 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 isnt just about seabirds. Its 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 Seabirds 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 Details ISBN1250181593 Author Adam Nicolson Short Title SEABIRDS CRY Pages 416 Language English ISBN-10 1250181593 ISBN-13 9781250181596 Format Paperback Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-02-05 Subtitle The Lives and Loves of the Planets Great Ocean Voyagers Alternative 9781250134189 DEWEY 598.17727 Audience General Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2019-02-05 UK Release Date 2019-02-05 Publisher St Martins Press Imprint St Martins Press We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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