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Once regarded as messengers from heaven, presaging longevity and good fortune, cranes appear in the ancient myth and legend of many cultures. Today, they evoke the retreating wilderness, the vanishing horizons of clean water, earth and air upon which their species - and ours too - depends for survival. In "The Birds of Heaven", Peter Matthiessen has woven his accounts of journeys undertaken over more than a decade in search of the fifteen remaining species of crane. From the scarcely populated Amur Valley in Siberia, he travels gradually west and south across Asia, through Australia, Africa and Europe (where the crane population has made a resurgence), ending up in the American Gulf Coast. He is joined by conservationists, scientists and enthusiasts of all nationalities, along with indigenous people - from Mongolian herdsmen to Aboriginals in Australia - whose fates are entwined with the cranes. Illustrated with colour plates by the renowned Canadian wildlife artist Robert Bateman, "The Birds of Heaven" captures the beauty of an endangered species and the dilemma of a planet in ecological crisis.
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‘Matthiessen writes with passion, poetry and precision. His descriptions...are frequently lyrical’ -- Financial Times
‘Matthiessen...is a writer of great integrity, who lives the life he writes...' -- Scotland on Sunday
‘Peter Matthiessen is beyond dispute the best nature writer working today’ -- Peter Farb
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‘Matthiessen...is a writer of great integrity, who lives the life he writes...' -- Scotland on Sunday
‘Peter Matthiessen is beyond dispute the best nature writer working today’ -- Peter Farb
Peter Matthiessen is a naturalist, explorer and writer. His works of fiction include At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Far Tortuga and the acclaimed 'Watson Trilogy'. His explorations have resulted in many fine works of non-fiction, among them The Snow Leopard, The Cloud Forest and The Tree where Man was Born.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0099447045
- ISBN 13 9780099447047
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