The Birds of Heaven by Peter Matthiessen

The Birds of Heaven by Peter Matthiessen

The story of a remarkable journey by one of the world's greatest nature writers across five continents to track down every species of the crane family. Once regarded as messengers from heaven, cranes form part of the ancient myth and legend of every country in which they appear. Today, they evoke the retreating wilderness and the vanishing habits upon which they depend. The enormous spans of their migrations are a symbol of their struggle to survive and a stimulus to international conservation efforts. Illustrated with colour plates by the renowned American wildlife artist Robert Bateman, "The Birds of Heaven" captures the beauty of a vanishing species and the dilemma of a planet in ecological crisis.

Our greatest modern nature writer in the lyrical tradition Stephen Jay Gould, New York Times; Peter Matthiessen is beyond dispute the best nature writer working today Peter Farb; Matthiessen is an endangered species: a writer of great integrity, who lives the life he writes, and yet whose scathing critique of our all-consuming, all-exploiting society is also realistic James Robertson, Scotland on Sunday; One of our best writers Don Delillo

Peter Mathiessen, naturalist, explorer and writer, co-founded The Paris Review in 1951. His works of fiction include At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Far Tortuga, and the acclaimed Watson trilogy. He has published many volumes of non-fiction, among them The Snow Leopard and The Tree Where Man Was Born.

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ISBN 13	9781860469473
ISBN 10	1860469477
Titel	The Birds of Heaven
Autor	Peter Matthiessen
Serie	Panther S
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Vintage Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2002-01-25
Seitenanzahl	372
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