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    The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers
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    The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers
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    The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers

    Written by Adam Nicolson

    Narrated by Dugald Bruce-Lockhart

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    About this audiobook

    WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2018

    WINNER OF THE JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING 2017

    The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers. The book looks at the pattern of their lives, their habitats, the threats they face and the passions they inspire – beautifully illustrated by Kate Boxer.

    Seabirds are master navigators, thriving in the most demanding environment on earth. In this masterly book, drawing on all the most recent research, Adam Nicolson follows them to the coasts and islands of Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, and the Americas. Beautifully illustrated by Kate Boxer, The Seabird’s Cry is a celebration of the wonders of the only creatures at home in the air, on land and on the sea. It also carries a warning: the number of seabirds has dropped by two-thirds since 1950. Extinction stalks the ocean and there is a danger that the grand cry of a seabird colony will this century become little but a memory.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateJun 1, 2017
    ISBN9780008181994
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    The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers
    Author

    Adam Nicolson

    Adam Nicolson is the author of many books on history, travel and the environment. He is winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the British Topography Prize and lives at Sissinghust Castle in Kent.

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    • 5/5
      An absolute instant classic of a book, which I enjoyed immensely while sitting on a Maine deck watching the seabirds. Nicolson's wide-ranging tales make for delightful reading. 
    • 5/5
      What an unexpected delight. Beautifully written with relevant cultural and historical stories throughout, which were not only interesting, but also helped to contextualise these birds in our lives. The audiobook was very much like listening to an in-depth documentary series with each chapter looking at a different bird (not unlike Raptor A Journey Through Birds by James Macdonald Lockhart, but without the walking journey). When I first thought about getting into nature writing, it was this kind of book that I was hoping to encounter. I think I’ll have to pick up a hard copy of this one for my shelves, and to revisit in future.