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A beautiful book, written with knowledge and compassion, detailing the astonishing life cycle of the Eskimo Curlew. This was a bird that flew in such huge flocks that a single gunshot would kill 30, and maim more sentencing them to a slower death. It describes their amazing migrations and details their lives as a biography of one male bird. I knew about the mass slaughter of the American bison and total annihilation of the passenger pigeon not knowing about this other species wiped out by hunting in the US in the 1800s and early 1900. A very powerful portrait.
Driven by instinct, the graceful Eskimo curlew flies its nine-thousand-mile route from the Arctic Circle to the tip of South America and back again. Bodsworth conveys the mechanics of this single bird's remarkable flight and its instinctive search for others of its kind. The lone survivor comes to stand for the entirety of a lost species, and indeed for all in nature that is endangered.
A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
Excellent, enthralling, and while full of vocabulary unfamiliar to me, I enjoyed encountering new words without this ever slowing down my reading. A touching portrait of a wandering soul, and post Second World War north-east England.
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'Glorious ... Leaves an indelible impression ... A moving and subtle novel in many ways, infused with a love of the minute pleasures in life, and the lasting regrets' - Scotland on Sunday _______________________
