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

by Adam Nicolson

Book Overview

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 book, seven are in decline,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250134188
• ISBN13: 9781250134189
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.2"