The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers
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| Rating | : | 4.75 (518 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0725CZMB5 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 131 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The book of the year" according to Sigmund Aas. I cannot believe this is the first review of such amazing book. Possibly the best I have ever read, definitely the most beautifull I have ever read.The prose is mesmerising, the facts stunning, albeit at times sad. That is not the authors fault of course, it is the rather depressing way of the natural world these days. Do not l
At each moment one part recognizes the otherness of the birds; one sees them as an aspect of who we are. We both took the birds and saw something magical in them. They stand in for our relationship with nature as a whole. In a beautiful evocation of the natural world that we both abuse and treasure, The Seabird's Cry tells long story of seabirds as a barometer of human life on earth.. The story of how we have always been stirred by seabirds, the patterns of their lives, their habitats, the threats they face, the folklore and the inspiration they've brought to poets, writers, musicians and painters in their extraordinarily long lives. But the four phases are all one: eat them, revere them; sell them, admire them; disrupt their world, try to protect them; destroy the ocean, grasp their genius. Through much of human time, and at a foundation level, the model has been one of predation and reverence. From the beginning our view of them has been double, as creatures that are both deeply distant and yet strangely connected to us, both oceanic in what they represent and a mirror of what we are. We use them and love them, nurture them and destroy them, revere them and make toys and hats and dinner out of them. They were food and poetry, metaphors fo