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In this conservation classic, originally published fifty-five years ago, Fred Bodsworth tells the story of a solitary Eskimo curlew’s perilous migration and search for a mate. The lone survivor comes to stand for the entirety of a species on the brink of extinction, and for all in nature that is endangered. This new paperback edition includes a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin and an afterword by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann.
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Fred Bosworth is an esteemed ornithologist, a former reporter and the author of six books. Last of the Curlews was his first novel. He lives in Toronto, Canada.
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- PublisherCounterpoint
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1887178007
- ISBN 13 9781887178006
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages174
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