Shearwater [sound recording on cd] : a bird, an ocean, and a long way home

Morgan-Grenville, Roger2022

Audiobooks

Find it!
Remove Shearwater [sound recording on cd] : a bird, an ocean, and a long way home from your current list Save Shearwater [sound recording on cd] : a bird, an ocean, and a long way home to your current list

Total copies: 1

Summary

Ten weeks into its life, a Manx shearwater chick will emerge from its burrow and fly 8,000 miles from the west coast of the British Isles to the South Atlantic. It will be unlikely to touch land again for four years. Part memoir, part homage to wilderness, 'Shearwater' traces the author's 50-year obsession with one of nature's supreme travellers. In the finest tradition of nature writing, Roger Morgan-Grenville unpicks the science behind its incredible journey; and into the story of a year in the shearwater's life, he threads the inspirational influence of his Hebridean grandmother who instilled in him a love of wild places and wild animals.