#BookSnapSunday – The Seabird’s Cry

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This week's #BookSnapSunday is my latest read; The Seabirds Cry by Adam Nicolson everything you could ever want to know and some things it might be easier not to know about seabirds. They live harsh lives and we would be so much poorer without them. Who can resist a puffin the endearing clown of the bird world. This book won the Wainwright prize in 2018, poetic eloquent tribute to the species that spans the three elements of earth, air and water.

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This week’s BookSnapSunday is my latest read, Adam Nicolson’s 2018 Wainwright prize winner The Seabird’s Cry an eloquent tribute to the roving souls of sea birds, a poetic, beautiful book filled with passion and broad knowledge. Offering insight into the wildest of worlds, the world of the sea bird. They live harsh lives in some of the harshest environments on earth, their worlds can be characterized by violence but also community. A lovely read, if I have one criticism it is that the book has a largely northern hemisphere focus but still such an enjoyable read, beautifully written and filled with knowledge and passion:

“Look at them on days like that, when the wind is blowing through the boundaries of fresh and stiff, and you will see them for what they are: wind-runners, wind-dancers, the wind-spirits, alive with an evolved ability to live with the wind, in it and on it, drawing out its energy to make their own feathered, mobile, ocean-ranging magnificence.”

A lovely book celebrating species under threat.

And who can resist a puffin, they have to be amongst the most gorgeous creatures on earth especially in their breeding colours:

“Next time you sit among the puffins…looking at their elegance and anxiety, that is what to hold in mind: not clowns but beauties, Ice Age survivors, scholar gypsies of the Atlantic, their minds on an everlasting swing between island and sea, burrow and voyage, parent and child, the oscillating nomad masters of an unpacific ocean.”