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Cargando... Shearwater: A Bird, an Ocean, and a Long Way Homepor Roger Morgan-Grenville
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I’m absolutely in love with this book. The topic has the potential to veer toward boring but the author is funny and anecdotal and made the topic of a seabird completely enjoyable. ( )Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Shearwater is a marvelous memoir of the authors fixation on a bird he first saw as a youth, and later spent a year following across the globe. Both a travelogue and a personal exploration with good natural history nestled in between. I may have seen shearwaters before and not known it, but shortly after finishing this I was on a whale-watch boat off Cape Cod and there was a shearwater, behaving just as described! I was meant to read this- which I received as an Early Reviewer copy. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. My only previous experience with Shearwater was with the band by that name. A shearwater is a seabird known for its ability to skim the water. This is a naturalist’s memoir of his experience with and fascination for these birds. This will be delightful for all those who enjoy natural history.Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. I really didn't know anything about birds before I read this book. And honestly if I was sitting in science class learning about the Manx Shearwater, I would have been so bored. But Morgan-Grenville has converted me to a huge fan of Shearwatwrs! They are so amazing that I fell head-over-heels for them the same way the author did as a kid and thoroughly enjoyed learning about the animals as much as I enjoyed reading about the author's life. Not only a great story but so well-written; I underlined so many great lines! His writing style is absolutely poetic. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. The author weaves together the story of the Manx shearwater with a recounting of his own decades-long interest in the birds, culminating in a year of travels following the birds' migration. Throughout the book, his passion for seabirds--both shearwaters, and more generally--and their conservation is really clear, and I really appreciated that. It took me quite some time to get into this book (I think I struggled to sort out the book's dual focus at the beginning, though this became clearer later), but I'm definitely glad that I read it.
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)598.42Natural sciences and mathematics Zoology Birds Waterbirds Albatrosses, Petrels, Shearwaters, etc.Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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