Roger Morgan-Grenville
Autore di Shearwater: A Bird, an Ocean, and a Long Way Home
Opere di Roger Morgan-Grenville
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 20th century
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
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Shearwater: A Bird, an Ocean, and a Long Way Home di Roger Morgan-Grenville
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di 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.
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di 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.
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di 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.
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di 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.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 8
- Utenti
- 75
- Popolarità
- #235,804
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 18
- ISBN
- 20
