The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey [Audiobook] download free by Deborah Cramer
- Listen audiobook: The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
- Author: Deborah Cramer
- Release date: 2015/7/7
- Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780300185195
- Rating: 8.38 of 10
- Votes: 833
- Review by: Reginald Taft
- Review rating: 7.8 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/27
- Duration: 3H47M58S in 256 kbps (60.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-19
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MP3, Apple Lossless, WAV, FLAC, WMA Lossless, Shorten, MPEG4 (compression AZW4, TAR.XZ, ZIP, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 304
- Includes a PDF summary of 28 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 21M4S (5.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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
- Other categories, genre or collection: Wildlife: Birds & Birdwatching, Sea Life & The Seashore, Zoology: Invertebrates, Birds (ornithology), Deltas, Estuaries, Coastal Regions
- Download servers: FreakShare, MEGA, Torrent, Your Bittorrent, Hotfile, Torrent Downloads, Dropbox. Compressed in AZW4, TAR.XZ, ZIP, RAR
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 30.91 USD
- Dimensions: 156x235x27mm
- Weight: 630g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New Haven, United States
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