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Bezig met laden... The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagersdoor Adam Nicolson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A set of chapters about different sea birds that nest on the coasts and spend most of their lives at sea. Some of them I'd not be able to distinguish, some pictures were quite useful, a ready reckoner would have been valuable. It covers them life cycle, the latest science but also how they appear and are portrayed in literature and popular culture. So the Albatross has only been considered bad luck to kill one since Coleridge's poem, before that, they were regularly killed for food. Can get a little repetitive, and the final chapter is profoundly depressing for the future of these specialised birds. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Life itself could never have been sustainable without seabirds. As Adam Nicolson writes: "They are bringers of fertility, the deliverers of life from ocean to land." A global tragedy is unfolding. 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. Of the ten birds in this audiobook, seven are in decline, at least in part of their range. 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. 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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)598.177Natural sciences and mathematics Zoology Birds Specific topics [Reptiles now at 597.9] Ecology [Anomodontia now at 567.93]LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Beautifully written, the book is meticulously researched. Yet Nicolson's style is readable and involving, with sometimes detailed data presented in a clear and accessible manner. His final chapter, while apparently negative about the future for many of our most loved seabirds ends on a positive note. This was a book I was sorry to have finished. ( )