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Shearwater

A Bird, an Ocean, and a Long Way Home
CD - unabridged
(6 CDs)
Product Number: CX7643
Released: 01 Feb, 2022
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781004065721
Narrator(s): Roger Morgan-Grenville
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

A very personal mix of memoir and natural history from the author of Liquid Gold. Ten weeks into its life, a Manx shearwater chick will emerge from its burrow and fly 8,000 miles from the west coast of the British Isles to the South Atlantic. It will be unlikely to touch land again for four years. Part memoir, part homage to wilderness, Shearwater traces the author’s 50-year obsession with one of nature’s supreme travellers. In the finest tradition of nature writing, Roger Morgan-Grenville, author of Liquid Gold – described by Mary Colwell (Curlew Moon) as ‘a book that ignites joy and warmth’ – unpicks the science behind its incredible journey; and into the story of a year in the shearwater’s life, he threads the inspirational influence of his Hebridean grandmother who instilled in him a love of wild places and wild animals. Full of lightly-worn knowledge, acute human observation and self-deprecating humour, Shearwater brings to life a truly mysterious and charismatic bird.

Original Publish Date: 01 Feb, 2022

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MP3 CD
x-large
Narrator(s): Roger Morgan-Grenville
Product Number MPCD6320
Released: 01 Feb, 2022
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781004065745
Playaway
x-large
Narrator(s): Roger Morgan-Grenville
Product Number D7035
Released: 01 Feb, 2022
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781004065738

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