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Sto caricando le informazioni... Flight Linesdi Andrew Darby
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An trans-world journey with an extraorindary shorebird--from Australia's southern ocean to the Arctic and back--that explores the mysteries of the natural world and its power to heal. As the sun lowered and turned Gulf St Vincent fiery, they each called a high-pitched 'peeooowiii!', flashed their black wing-pits, spread their tail skirts and took flight... In a luminous new boook, Andrew Darby follows the odysseys of two seemingly-humble Grey Plovers, little-known migratory shorebirds, as they take previously uncharted ultramarathon flights from the southern coast of Australia to Arctic breeding grounds. On these death-defying flights they dodge predators, typhoons, exhaustion, and countless other dangers before they can breed...and then survive the journey all over again and return south to their feeding grounds. But the greatest threat to these, and other long-distance migrants on the flyway, is China's "dragon economy," which is engulfing their vital Yellow Sea staging spots. In Flight Lines, we meet the dedicated people of all nationalities and backgrounds working to save these intrepid birds, from Russia to Alaska, from the rim of the Arctic Sea to the coasts of the Southern Ocean. Out of their hard-won science Darby finds hope for the birds--an unexpected bright light for our times. But his journey to understand these marvellous birds almost ends when he is suddenly diagnosed with an incurable cancer. Then he finds science coming to his rescue too, as his own story and the journey of these little birds intersect in an unexpected and beautiful way. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)598.156Natural sciences and mathematics Zoology Birds Specific topics [Reptiles now at 597.9] Habits and behavior [Ichthyosauria now at 567.93] Life cycleClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (3.88)
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I found this book rather meandering. I do read a lot of natural history and natural science books, which might be a part of the reason. I don't need to hear twenty descriptions of how the people who are attracted to shore birds are like, eclectic, strange and highly educated interesting people. It feels kind of self-congratulatory, and it's extremely repetitive. Time that could have been given to more to science (of which there could have been much more of it, given the breadth of the end-text references) is generally spent explaining to us, once again, how eccentric and amazing the people who like shorewaders really are. (They didn't seem that amazing, the Bangladesh story highlighted how neglected for spouses they can certainly be, a story which might be hilarious to guys, but is honestly a sign of how men will happily use a hobby to abandon their wives and leave no way to be contacted).
Darby's prose is beautiful at times, but at others it's meandering and takes a long time to get to the point. Some of the early chapters I literally did not understand the point of, except that it seemed to be one more 'wow these people are amazing, wow grey plovers are REALLY NONDESCRIPT HUH' and it's like well, you established that in the first chapter, so why...is this still happening?
The content gets meatier in the middle, looking at how hunting and environmentalism impacts, and continues to impact birds that fly supermarathons. I feel like the book would have been much stronger with this not being saved up like a 'tantalising storyline' and it being front and centre from the beginning of the book. By the time we got to the crux of the book, I was bored, and frankly, beginning to count the times I'd be told how unique the people who love these birds are.
Really wanted to love this, since it's right up my alley in terms of content and subject, but just didn't. Would recommend it to anyone who loves shorewaders obsessively, because boy and howdy, you are just going to be praised for 200 pages about how much better you are than average people, lol. (