The seafarers : a journey among birds
Rutt, Stephen2019
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The British Isles are remarkable for their extraordinary seabird life. In 2015, Stephen Rutt escaped his hectic, anxiety-inducing life in London for the bird observatory on North Ronaldsay, the most northerly of the Orkney Islands. In thrall to these windswept havens and the people and birds that inhabit them, he began a journey to the edges of Britain. From Shetland, to the Farnes of Northumberland, down to the Welsh islands off the Pembrokeshire coast, he explores the part seabirds have played in our history and what they continue to mean to Britain today. This volume is the story of those travels: a love letter, written from the rocks and the edges, for the salt-stained, isolated and ever-changing lives of seabirds. This beguiling book reveals what it feels like to be immersed in a completely wild landscape, examining the allure of the remote in an over-crowded world.
Main title:
The seafarers : a journey among birds / Stephen Rutt.
Author:
Rutt, Stephen, author
Imprint:
London : Elliott & Thompson, 2019.
Collation:
280 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781783964277 (hbk)
Dewey class:
598.1770941598.177
LC class:
QL690.G7
Local class:
598.177
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2483625