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The Albatros is an Amazing Bird. Any idea just how many types there are. You have to read the words of Carl Safina to get the best impression. Carl describes with his extended experiance the life, death, chalenges, history, and world of the Albatros. Read Carl Safina. You will cry and Laugh
If you are already amazed with the animals that share our planet, your enthusiasm will be rewarded and expanded when you meet Amelia , her chick, and their neighbors on a tiny isolated island in the Hawaiian chain. If you are beginning an interest in the natural world, this is a inspiring place to begin. Pure science meets pure poetry in one wonderful read. The Eye of the Albatross is an important book, and a beautiful one.
Carl Safina possesses a rare combination of talents: he a scientist who also writes beautiful descriptive prose. He vividly captures the spirit of the ecosystems and animals that he is describing, while staying factually informative.This is a great read. It made me appreciate the open ocean in ways that I had never considered.
Read this book. This is a stunning description of an even more stunning creature. You will fall in love with the world's most magnificent long-distance flyer-glider. Part scientist, part poet, part mystic: Carl Safina is an albatross's best friend. The reader is instantly and forevermore smitten. You will not think of wind in the same way, nor gravity. You will become a more patient diligent steadfast joyous courageous human being.
Safina is president of Blue Ocean Institute, which he co-founded in 2003, so he's putting his prodigious talent to work to make the world a better place. "Eye of the Albatross" was the well-deserving winner of the 1993 John Burroughs Medal for distinguished natural hitory writing.
A must read. Brilliant, poignant and often painful.
More generally, the book is an overview of the devastation of the ocean environment. Beautifully written tale of the various species of albatross, whose survival is increasingly vulnerable to modern conditions and the willingness of homo sapiens (so-called) to change their behavior so that others may live.
The story is one of struggle, hope, the power of sheer persistence and of life's resilience under increasingly bleak conditions. Safina's latest piece of natural history brilliance is "Voyage of the Turtle: In pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur" (2006).
By Kyle Gardner, author of Medicine Rock Reflections
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