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“Threading together science and poetry with a sense of wonder, Adam Nicolson’s The Seabird’s 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.â€â€•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.â€â€•Star Tribune (Critics' Choice, Top 10 of 2018) “Breathtaking . . . Nicolson’s 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 poet’s 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 Aladdin’s 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 nature’s 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 reader’s 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 one’s 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 Seabird’s 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 isn’t just about ‘seabirds.’ It’s 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 Seabird’s 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
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About the Author
Adam Nicolson is a prize-winning writer of many books on history and nature, including Sea Room, NYT bestselling God's Secretaries, and the acclaimed Why Homer Matters. He is winner of the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the W. H. Heinemann Award, and the British Topography prize. He has written and presented many television series and lives on a farm in Sussex.
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Product details
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.; 1st Edition edition (February 6, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1250134188
ISBN-13: 978-1250134189
Product Dimensions:
6.2 x 1.4 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
14 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#287,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Adam Nicholson is a master at creating images of the lives of the birds. Each species profiled becomes indelibly embedded in your mind and heart. As a resident of the West Coast of California I have an opportunity to see some birds from the beach and on excursions to the Farallon Islands or farther away from the shore and I will never forget the first sight of an albatross. Nicholson takes you to the rookeries where life and death battles happen every hour, describing with clarity the lives of these wonderful birds.
Superb writing. If you have any feeling for the ravages of man, this will heighten your awareness and bring you to tears. Having seen the Layson Albatross up close, this reminded me of how docile they appear to be but reveals the true nature behind their existence. His descriptions are riveting.
Excellent reading. Poetry, science and more. I learned a lot. I like how the author makes the birds have characters.
An excellent book. Author covers a variety of seabirds in an interesting and informative way.
More philosophical musings than natural history.
I want to like this book more than I do. There are places in it where Nicolson reports accounts of research that are fascinating and hard to believe, especially on the ways the birds move about on the ocean, but there are other parts where this book is simply hard to read. This book contains a series of maps that are useful, but also leave off some points that are emphasized in the text. Nicolson apparently owns a seabird island in the Minch, a seaway between the Hebrides and the mainland of Scotland, so he has definitely been living with his subjects for much of his life. The book is divided up into 10 accounts of seabird groups of species, (2 gulls, 3 alcids, 3 tubenoses, and 2 pelicaniformes), with a concluding chapter. He seems to really like the gulls (including Kittiwakes), the alcids (Puffin, Guillemot (Murre for us Yanks), and Razorbill). He is less enthusiastic about the tubenoses (fulmar, shearwater, and albatross), although he does admire their ability to navigate the open ocean, and he does not seem that fond of the Cormorants, Shags, and Gannets.One thing about Seabirds's Cry is that Nicolson seems determined to find the darkest stories to tell about each species. He is obsessed with infanticide, a phenomenon found in several seabird groups. When he reviews an interesting paper about Altruism and Spite in gulls, he focuses almost entirely on spite, even when much of the original paper dealt with altruistic behavior by gulls. He is correct on pointing out that many of these species lose high percentages of their chicks, but if you read this book for inspiration and insight these parts will bring you down.To me seabirds are among the most fascinating organisms on the planet with their surprisingly long lives, and pair bonds between males and females that may last one of these lifetimes. Some birds are paired for more than 50 years which puts many human pairings to shame. They live so long, in fact, that in some cases we may not realize how precarious their populations may be. Nicolson is careful to tell us that some species have not bred successfully for several years, which is a genuine source of concern. It is tough to be a seabird, but those individuals that succeed are some of the most fascinating organisms on our planet.
The author certainly writes beautifully, and when he is not quoting poets he often sounds like one himself. The prose style reminded me of another brilliant nature advocate, David Haskell and his Forest Unseen. There are ten chapters each addressing a specific species of seabird, and they are indeed full of fascinating details. But they all relentlessly repeat the same message: that as a group they are in danger of extinction because of various human environmental impacts. The story of the great auk is well told as a cautionary tale. But in making his case, he seems to go off the deep end at times, committing the cardinal sin for a biologist of projecting human values onto animal behaviour. The elegizing of monogamy and family values in some species sounded a little right-winged, pardon the pun. At least he points out that the promiscuous ones seem to be winning the evolutionary race. And if, as the title seems to imply, seabirds are literally crying about their fate in the Anthropocene, there is the consolation that three of the ten species are thriving. An interesting collection of stories, but I would have enjoyed it more if some of the sentimentality had been plucked.
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