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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780300219692
- Book Title
- Narrow Edge : a Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Nature, Science
- Topic
- Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ornithology, Life Sciences / Zoology / Invertebrates, Animals / Birds
- Item Weight
- 13.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300219695
ISBN-13
9780300219692
eBay Product ID (ePID)
222034668
Product Key Features
Book Title
Narrow Edge : a Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Ecosystems & Habitats / Coastal Regions & Shorelines, Life Sciences / Zoology / Ornithology, Life Sciences / Zoology / Invertebrates, Animals / Birds
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
13.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
598.156/80916346
Synopsis
In a volume as urgent and eloquent as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring , this book--winner of the Southern Environmental Law Center's 2016 Reed Environmental Writing Award in the book category--reveals how the health and well-being of a tiny bird and an ancient crab mirrors our own Winner of the 2016 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award given by the Society of Environmental Journalists "[Cramer] writes . . . 'By the end of this journey I am more in awe than when I began.' Follow her graceful writing for the full 9,500 miles and you will share in that awe."--Laurence A. Marschall, Natural History "Her writing is vivid, novelistic . . . The resulting book is everything a natural history should be."-- Living Bird Each year, red knots, sandpipers weighing no more than a coffee cup, fly a near-miraculous 19,000 miles from the tip of South America to their nesting grounds in the Arctic and back. Along the way, they double their weight by gorging on millions of tiny horseshoe crab eggs. Horseshoe crabs, ancient animals that come ashore but once a year, are vital to humans, too: their blue blood safeguards our health. Now, the rufa red knot, newly listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, will likely face extinction in the foreseeable future across its entire range, 40 states and 27 countries. The first United States bird listed because global warming imperils its existence, it will not be the last: the red knot is the twenty-first century's "canary in the coal mine." Logging thousands of miles following the knots, shivering with the birds out on the snowy tundra, tracking them down in bug-infested marshes, Cramer vividly portrays what's at stake for millions of shorebirds and hundreds of millions of people living at the sea edge. The Narrow Edge offers an uplifting portrait of the tenacity of tiny birds and of the many people who, on the sea edge we all share, keep knots flying and offer them safe harbor. Winner of the 2016 National Academies Communications Award for best book that honors the best in science communications. Sponsored by the Keck Futures Initiative--a program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, with the support of the W.M. Keck Foundation, In a volume as urgent and eloquent as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring , this book--winner of the Southern Environmental Law Center's 2016 Reed Environmental Writing Award in the book category--reveals how the health and well-being of a tiny bird and an ancient crab mirrors our own Winner of the 2016 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award given by the Society of Environmental Journalists Each year, red knots, sandpipers weighing no more than a coffee cup, fly a near-miraculous 19,000 miles from the tip of South America to their nesting grounds in the Arctic and back. Along the way, they double their weight by gorging on millions of tiny horseshoe crab eggs. Horseshoe crabs, ancient animals that come ashore but once a year, are vital to humans, too: their blue blood safeguards our health. Now, the rufa red knot, newly listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, will likely face extinction in the foreseeable future across its entire range, 40 states and 27 countries. The first United States bird listed because global warming imperils its existence, it will not be the last: the red knot is the twenty-first century's "canary in the coal mine." Logging thousands of miles following the knots, shivering with the birds out on the snowy tundra, tracking them down in bug-infested marshes, Cramer vividly portrays what's at stake for millions of shorebirds and hundreds of millions of people living at the sea edge. The Narrow Edge offers an uplifting portrait of the tenacity of tiny birds and of the many people who, on the sea edge we all share, keep knots flying and offer them safe harbor. Winner of the 2016 National Academies Communications Award for best book that honors the best in science communications. Sponsored by the Keck Futures Initiative--a program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, with the support of the W.M. Keck Foundation, In a volume as urgent and eloquent as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring , this book--winner of the Southern Environmental Law Center's 2016 Reed Environmental Writing Award in the book category--reveals how the health and well-being of a tiny bird and an ancient crab mirrors our own
LC Classification Number
QL696.C48C48 2016
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Copyright Date
2016
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